Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week - Full Compilation

17 Dividend Challengers With A Strong Buy Rating

Today I would like to take a look at the recommendations from brokerage firms or analysts. 

I analyzed the Dividend Challengers group (stocks with more than 5 years of consecutive dividend growth) by the current recommendations.

Seventeen of the stocks have a current strong buy rating. Attached you will find a full list with some fundamentals.

It's a little bit easier to join the club of Dividend Challengers than to be a Dividend King, Champion, Aristocrat or Contender.

Here are my favorites from the screen...

10 Stocks Giving Investors More Money

I'm a passionate dividend investor and I also like to see my dividends growing. For sure, dividend growth is no safe bet or a strategy that makes you quick rich but it can deliver a solid return.

I've build a database with dividend growth stocks and stocks that have announced a share buyback program in order to monitor potential investment opportunities.

Each day and week, I sit down and watch that list and switch stock by stock with hopes to find the next ten-bagger that could generate millions for my portfolio.

Below is an overview of the latest dividend grower. Those stocks have raised dividends within the past week. This time, only 10 companies hiked their payments to shareholders.

The biggest fish in the pool was Philip Morris, followed by American Tower and Yum! Brands.

Big is beautiful but they also have a high debt burden in common.

Which stocks do you like?

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%

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (June 04 – June 10, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 37 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 8 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 12.29 percent. Exactly 19 stocks/funds have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.