These Companies Announced Dividend Increases In The Past Week

One way to identify dividend growth stocks for further analysis is to monitor dividend increases. 

Companies that regularly increase dividends show confidence in future earnings growth potential.

In the past weeks, 18 companies announced dividend increases. The table below presents a summary of these increases. 

Here are the results...

12 Best REITs With Solid Fundamentals To Finance Profitable Growth

Owning such things as office buildings and self-storage facilities, real estate investment trusts rake in rents and must pay at least 90 percent of their taxable income to shareholders. 

As long as they can keep raising rents and dividend payments, the stocks should fare well. 

Indeed, REITs’ underlying properties should post a 4.5 percent average gain in operating income this year, fueling dividend growth in the “high single-digit” range, says investment firm Lazard, and yields in the range of 2 percent to 6 percent.

Attached you will find a selection of Reits with Return on Assests over 5 percent and solid debt ratios. 

This is in my view the best way to discover stocks with potential for profitable growth in the future.

Here are the results...

20 Highest Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week

Attached is a list of the highest yielding stocks that go ex-dividend within the upcoming week. The full list can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week August 03 - 09, 2015. Only MidCaps with a market cap over 2 billion were included.

IBM and Intel are the biggest stocks from the tech sector. The highest yielding stocks come from the oil and gas pipeline industry.

Below is a current stock list of dividend stocks (common shares, preferred shares and American Depositary Receipts – ADR’s), paying forthcoming dividends and having their ex-dividend August 03, 2015 – August 09, 2015. The average dividend-yield amounts to 4.32 percent.