38 Stocks And ETFs Let Their Dividends Jump Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week, 36 stocks and two ETFs announced to raise dividends. It’s great to see how the American dividend stock machine works. Compared to the number of stocks from the recent weeks, the current results are still thin but solid. The list of the weekly dividend grower is very volatile and the number of constituents is between 10 and 100. This week, the average growth rates amounts to 33.8, a value twice as much as the results from last week.

I love it to see how companies increase their dividend payments despite the fact that I would buy only a few of them. The biggest names on the list are Clorox, Coach, Marriott, Macy’s and Potash. Three of the results are High-Yields and 20 have a current buy or better rating.

100 Best Small Cap Stocks To Place Your Money

Small cap stocks with a strong growth and best dividends to buy, originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Everybody loves growth. If you own an investment and it starts to grow by double-digit rates over a few years, when the stock price explode and you feel like a bird in heaven. I felt a few times like this. But it is also necessary that you sell partly your position over the time. I personally reduce my stocks positions when they have doubled or more. Certainly you can’t get very rich with this rule but you hedge your stock gains and believe me by selling stocks with gains, nobody become poor.

I recently viewed a nice list at Forbes. The list was a research result of the 100 best small cap growth stocks in America. Stocks from the table are public and tradeable in America. They all have a total sales volume below the USD 1 billion mark and fantastic years of recent growth. As you can see at the list, the GDP growth is America is still weak but out there are still investment opportunities to discover.

I discovered the ten best dividend stocks from the small cap growth picks. I needed to screen more than 50 companies in order to find ten stocks with positive dividend payments. Most of the small cap growth stocks don’t pay dividends. But the debt situation is very comfortable. Most of them are free of debt and have bigger cash amounts to their balance sheets in order to finance future growth. The average stock grew in sales by 19 percent yearly. Earnings followd by 31 percent growth yearly and the average return on equity amounted to 20 percent. See the full list of the 100 best small cap growth stocks at the end of this post.

Thomson Reuters (TRI) - Dividend Idea Of The Week With 4.4% Dividend-Yield And 31.76% Upside

Our Dividend Idea of the day is the financial information provider Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI). The stock price closed at $28.84 and the fair value is expected by Morningstar at $38.00, which represents an upside of 31.76%.

20 Of The Best Dividend Paying Technology Stocks

Best Dividend Paying Technology Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The technology sector is a great investment field with fantastic growth potential. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 120.21 trillion and summarizes 881 companies. The average dividend yield amounts to 2.85 percent and the P/E ratio is 17.55.

In order to find the best dividend paying stocks within the sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than ten percent and an operating margin over 20 percent. In order get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.3. Twenty technology companies remained of which six yielding over three percent and thirteen are currently recommended to buy.

13 Most Profitable Dividend Contenders

Dividend Contenders With Highest Return On Investment Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Contenders are stocks with a history of rising dividend of more than 10 years in a row but less than 25 years. Stocks with such a long dividend growth history have a high reliability but which one are currently the best in terms of profitability?

I screened the 168 Dividend Contenders by the highest return on investment (ROI). Dividend Contenders are normally of higher profitability. 58 companies have a ROI over 10 percent. I observed only the highest figures. Thirteen companies have currently the highest ROI of more than 25 percent.

Here are my favorite stocks:

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Nu Skin Enterprise (NYSE:NUS) has a market capitalization of $2.74 billion. The company employs 3,420 people, generates revenues of $1,743.99 million and has a net income of $153.33 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $266.54 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 15.28 percent (operating margin 13.40 percent and the net profit margin finally 8.79 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 13.78 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 23.78 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 29.33 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.87. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.59 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.09, P/S ratio 1.55 and P/B ratio 4.65. Dividend Yield: 1.87 percent. The beta ratio is 1.26.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Nu Skin Enterpris... (Click to enlarge)

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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Nu Skin Enterpris... (NYSE: NUS) (Click to enlarge)

Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) has a market capitalization of $87.41 billion. The company employs 32,136 people, generates revenues of $11,214.67 million and has a net income of $2,889.96 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,202.84 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 37.48 percent (operating margin 33.72 percent and the net profit margin finally 25.77 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 1.32 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 2.28 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 45.95 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.07. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.37 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 26.23, P/S ratio 5.48 and P/B ratio 11.88. Dividend Yield: 1.85 percent. The beta ratio is 0.55.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Novo Nordisk A/S ... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Novo Nordisk A/S ... (NVO) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Novo Nordisk A/S ... (NYSE: NVO) (Click to enlarge)

The TJX Companies (NYSE:TJX) has a market capitalization of $30.72 billion. The company employs 168,000 people, generates revenues of $23,191.46 million and has a net income of $1,496.09 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,932.76 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 12.65 percent (operating margin 10.40 percent and the net profit margin finally 6.45 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 9.51 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 24.54 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 47.43 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.16. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.38 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.22, P/S ratio 1.33 and P/B ratio 9.67. Dividend Yield: 1.11 percent. The beta ratio is 0.57.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of The TJX Companies... (Click to enlarge)

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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of The TJX Companies... (NYSE: TJX) (Click to enlarge)

Ross Stores (NASDAQ:ROST) has a market capitalization of $14.55 billion. The company employs 14,900 people, generates revenues of $8,608.29 million and has a net income of $657.17 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,223.36 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 14.21 percent (operating margin 12.23 percent and the net profit margin finally 7.63 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 4.54 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 10.05 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 46.51 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.05. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.47 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 21.17, P/S ratio 1.65 and P/B ratio 9.56. Dividend Yield: 0.89 percent. The beta ratio is 0.71.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Ross Stores, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Ross Stores, Inc. (ROST) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Ross Stores, Inc. (NASDAQ: ROST) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of Dividend Contenders with the highest return on investment. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 18.45 and forward P/E ratio is 15.93. The dividend yield has a value of 2.74 percent. Price to book ratio is 6.84 and price to sales ratio 3.77. The operating margin amounts to 38.28 percent and the beta ratio is 0.99. The average stock has a ROI of 30.28 percent.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

13 Most Profitable Dividend Contenders (Click to enlarge)

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ARLP, UHT, BBL, BHP, LLTC, CHRW, PII, NVO, NUS, FAST, ROL, FDS, TJX, ROST

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