Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Past Week

Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week 21/2016

Dividend growth investing is a popular model followed by the investing community to build assets.

Companies which not only pay dividends, but raise them year after year have been shown to perform better overall for investor returns.

Following companies announced dividend increases this week. These are the dividend grower from the past week... If you like them to receive in the future, just subscribe to my free newsletter. 

Here are the latest dividend growth stocks compiled...

38 Dividend Growth Utilities With A Solid Finance Basis Or Earnings Growth

If there is one thing every investor can appreciate, it is a growing stream of reliable dividends. With the Federal Reserve aiming to raise rates in December, the rate sensitive stocks have seen some price declines.

One of those rate sensitive sectors is the utility sector. To help investors find some of the best companies in the sector, I began researching those utility stocks with at least 5 straight years of dividend increases. 54 companies are part of the results. That's a huge number which I want to reduce by implementing higher restrictions. More about this method can be read below.

Some investors like to build their dividend growth portfolio with very different strategies. One trick that I have found can help investors stay on track is to mentally consider the costs they will need to pay each month of their life and to set a goal for covering those costs with dividend income.

There is a beautiful irony in being able to cover the costs an investor faces in their life with a dividend check from the same company that is selling them a product. When it comes to the utility companies, it makes sense to have a more diversified portfolio rather than simply owning the utility that covers the investor's primary residence. 

The simple geographic risk of a natural disaster impacting the company and the investor's life at the same time makes it ideal to use a portfolio with at least a few different utility companies, even when the investor wants to use a utility dividend check to pay for their cost.

Utilities are mostly not diversified but you can do it on your own by investing smaller amounts into several sub-industries.

I've created two charts from my dividend growth utility database. The first table lists all utilities with a debt-to-equity ratio below one. I think its also important to have a look at financial ratios, especially when rates go up in the near future.

The second chart gives an overview of dividend growth utilities with a predicted 5% earnings growth for the next five years. It's a more bullish view on future earnings.

Here are the results…

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 11, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks June 11, 2013. In total, 22 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.58%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.41B	21.96	1.29	0.86	5.58%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	2.28B	22.37	1.86	10.44	5.26%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	2.76B	3.01	1.46	7.62	4.95%
Yanzhou Coal Mining Co. Ltd.	YZC	4.98B	4.92	0.69	0.53	4.94%
Lumos Networks Corp.	LMOS	340.29M	19.15	4.97	1.64	3.61%
DDR Corp.	DDR	6.20B	-	1.66	7.55	3.08%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.45B	15.17	1.74	1.68	2.95%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.81B	849.67	1.81	1.16	2.71%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.53B	22.94	1.31	1.78	2.14%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	19.63B	21.50	4.78	6.31	2.01%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.11B	66.08	1.95	14.18	1.73%
PolyOne Corporation	POL	2.49B	36.32	2.86	0.83	0.96%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.	JJSF	1.44B	23.63	2.91	1.67	0.84%
HDFC Bank Ltd.	HDB	6.01B	27.80	27.03	1.04	0.74%
Berry Petroleum Co.	BRY	2.46B	14.69	2.35	2.43	0.71%
AAON Inc.	AAON	779.52M	26.09	5.39	2.56	0.63%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 12, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks March 12, 2013. In total, 28 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.73%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
KKR Financial Holdings LLC	KFN	2.33B	5.95	1.10	4.19	7.39%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.02B	17.25	1.10	0.72	6.67%
Medical Properties Trust Inc.	MPW	2.25B	26.40	1.95	11.19	5.32%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	9.23B	27.51	1.45	2.46	3.16%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.18B	26.56	4.95	4.57	3.05%
DDR Corp.	DDR	5.58B	-	1.67	6.97	3.05%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.36B	14.97	1.64	1.59	2.96%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	4.68B	-	1.72	1.15	2.78%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.91B	45.26	5.36	11.36	2.75%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	5.72B	18.43	1.22	1.82	2.25%
Wyndham Worldwide	WYN	8.68B	23.02	4.52	1.91	1.83%
The Home Depot, Inc.	HD	106.71B	23.79	6.01	1.43	1.63%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.31B	15.70	1.01	1.70	1.62%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.76B	23.49	4.34	1.57	1.57%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.83B	211.95	2.12	15.84	1.54%
Legg Mason Inc.	LM	3.89B	-	0.79	1.50	1.46%
SPX Corporation	SPW	3.82B	26.43	1.80	0.77	1.23%
Ametek Inc.	AME	10.32B	22.56	4.07	3.10	0.57%
Gardner Denver Inc.	GDI	3.67B	14.13	2.53	1.56	0.27%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 11, 2012

The Best Yielding And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates. The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.17%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Escalade Inc.	ESCA	71.13M	-	0.92	0.50	6.04%
Gas Natural Inc.	EGAS	78.76M	30.35	1.04	0.88	5.74%
Mercury General Corporation	MCY	2.36B	11.03	1.24	0.83	5.71%
Penns Woods Bancorp Inc.	PWOD	147.07M	10.38	1.57	3.96	4.91%
BankUnited, Inc.	BKU	2.18B	12.62	1.25	3.15	3.64%
MDU Resources Group Inc.	MDU	3.92B	30.53	1.43	0.97	3.32%
El Paso Electric Co.	EE	1.26B	13.66	1.51	1.47	3.20%
Flexsteel Industries Inc.	FLXS	137.26M	10.25	0.97	0.38	3.06%
Utah Medical Products Inc.	UTMD	128.80M	13.21	2.65	3.09	2.80%
Marvell Technology Group Ltd.	MRVL	4.71B	15.16	1.01	1.50	2.73%
Home Federal Bancorp Inc.	HOME	165.47M	56.90	0.90	3.13	2.11%
Synovus Financial Corp.	SNV	1.83B	29.12	0.64	1.77	1.72%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	4.31B	29.27	3.02	2.21	1.02%
Berry Petroleum Co.	BRY	1.78B	-	1.82	1.85	0.97%