4 Dividend Stocks That Might Grow Earnings And Dividends Much Faster Than The S&P 500

Even after a 15% pullback, the S&P 500 yields just 2.3% today.

Which means if you buy an index fund today, and you never saw a dividend increase, it’d take you more than 40 years to get your initial investment back in cash.

Fortunately companies with growing earnings often do pass their higher profits along to shareholders. 

And you can really accelerate your returns by buying only those that increase their payouts annually.

Attached you will find 4 dividend stocks that are growing their earnings and dividends much faster than the S&P 500 at large.

They all pay a better-than-average dividend today, and have promising business prospects. Investors who buy these stocks today will likely soon enjoy an outsized yield on their initial investment, thanks to rapid payout growth.

Here are the results...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 22, 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.

In total, 16 stocks go ex dividend - of which 3 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.68%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Intersections Inc.	INTX	177.93M	17.00	1.72	0.53	8.11%
Pan American Silver Corp.	PAAS	2.07B	-	0.77	2.26	3.66%
Atmos Energy Corporation	ATO	3.77B	17.07	1.46	1.01	3.36%
FirstMerit Corporation	FMER	3.63B	17.81	1.42	6.16	2.79%
HollyFrontier Corporation	HFC	9.25B	5.91	1.48	0.45	2.62%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.30B	24.77	3.33	2.63	2.28%
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	4.27B	11.04	0.89	0.49	1.82%
Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc.	DNKN	4.66B	36.83	13.14	6.88	1.76%
Robert Half International Inc.	RHI	5.13B	22.14	5.95	1.24	1.70%
Old Line Bancshares Inc.	OLBK	89.93M	12.87	1.20	2.37	1.22%
Apollo Global Management, LLC	APO	3.91B	8.00	3.70	1.06	0.98%
Guaranty Bancorp	GBNK	240.52M	19.88	1.30	3.49	0.87%
LSB Financial Corp.	LSBI	37.58M	13.88	0.95	2.47	0.83%
Haverty Furniture Companies	HVT	574.87M	28.18	2.11	0.81	0.62%
Hecla Mining Co.	HL	1.13B	-	0.85	3.49	0.27%
Radian Group Inc.	RDN	2.26B	-	2.51	3.10	0.08%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 23, 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 May 23, 2013. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which none yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.91%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	248.84B	24.14	3.71	3.63	2.98%
Dunkin' Brands Group, Inc.	DNKN	4.41B	43.58	12.74	6.61	1.84%
Assurant Inc.	AIZ	3.90B	9.67	0.76	0.45	1.66%
Delek US Holdings Inc.	DK	2.18B	7.14	2.30	0.25	1.65%
Guaranty Bancorp	GBNK	1.17B	81.86	6.47	16.86	0.87%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	700.58M	55.67	1.10	0.38	0.86%
Rocky Brands, Inc.	RCKY	122.20M	13.54	0.96	0.53	0.62%
Hecla Mining Co.	HL	960.99M	84.25	0.84	3.14	0.30%
Vulcan Materials Company	VMC	7.14B	-	1.92	2.78	0.07%