Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week 20/2016

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.

Company	Ticker	New Yield	Dividend Growth in %
Connecticut Water Service	CTWS	2.31	5.61%
Hawthorn Bancshares	HWBK	1.34	3.99%
Mesa Royalty Trust	MTR	3.14	8.66%
MetLife Floating Ser A	META	4.08	1.10%
Clorox Co	CLX	2.5	3.90%
Group 1 Auto	GPI	1.53	4.55%
JPMorgan Chase	JPM	3	9.09%
Leggett&Platt	LEG	2.8	6.25%
Northrop Grumman	NOC	1.68	12.50%
Blue Hills Bancorp	BHBK	0.81	50.00%
First Financial Indiana	THFF	2.81	2.04%
Monro Muffler Brake	MNRO	1.1	13.33%
Republic Bancorp KY Cl A	RBCAA	3.08	5.56%
Southwest Airlines	LUV	0.95	33.33%
Towne Bank	TOWN	2.5	8.33%
United Fire Group	UFCS	2.42	13.64%
Brocade Comm Systems	BRCD	2.76	22.22%
Gentex	GNTX	2.27	5.88%
Houlihan Lokey Cl A	HLI	2.94	13.33%
KeyCorp	KEY	2.72	13.33%
Kilroy Realty	KRC	2.42	7.14%
Marsh&McLennan	MMC	2.12	9.68%
Medical Properties Tr	MPW	6.53	4.55%

12 Faster Growing Dividend Stocks With An Attractive Pricing

The current market environment is presenting many challenges to the conservative retired investor in need of current income. Interest rates are near all-time lows and the valuations of many blue-chip dividend growth stocks have become extended.

It is becoming very difficult to find quality investment opportunities that can provide safety through sound valuation, attractive yield and the potential to fight inflation. Most of my recent work has been focused on presenting attractively valued, high quality, higher yielding dividend growth stocks for consideration by retired investors.

Consequently, my primary focus has been on above-average yield, safety and dividend growth. Stated more plainly, my objective was to present high quality income and income growth investments over total return investments.

My quest to find 10 faster growing dividend stocks that were also attractively valued proved challenging. As I screened the universe, I did come up with just over 30 stocks that I initially found attractive based solely on valuation.

However, as I begin looking for above-average earnings growth, my choices dwindled rapidly. Nevertheless, my screens produced 12 stocks that I felt met the above reader's requirements, and more importantly, that also met some important considerations of my own.

These are the top results...

24 Stocks With Higher Dividend Payments (Announced Within The Past Week)

24 stocks announced a growing dividend in the past week. The biggest names were Illinois Tool Works, Expedia, Hershey and Broadridge Financial Solutions.

Big is beautiful but to pay a high price for growth or more safety is also irrational. In terms of cheapness, measured by forward P/E's are Avnet, State National and Ares Management the top picks.

Asset managers become the latest stocks on my cheap dividend plays but the industry also faces a strong headwind of out flooding money. How it will end in the mid-term is a question of believe. I do think that AUM will growth in the future but there is still a high sensibility to financial crisis and depressions.

However, let's face the facts. These are the latest dividend growers. Attached is also a list of the 20 biggest stocks with dividend growth in the past week. Which do you like?

These are the latest dividend growers....

Warren Buffett Buys An Auto Dealer - Here Are 5 Top Dividend Paying Alternatives

Yesterday, news jumped into the market: The oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett the mastermind behind the investment holding Berkshire Hathaway, bought an auto dealer. What - Auto and Dealer?

Yes, Buffett acquired an auto dealer. He still owns shares of car manufacturer General Motors and adds a fully business from the distribution site. The company named Van Tuyl Group and generated sales of just under USD 8 billion.

Van Tuyl Group says it is the biggest privately owned auto dealership group in the U.S. It has 78 independently operated dealerships and more than 100 franchises in 10 states. The company will be renamed Berkshire Hathaway Automotive and be based in Dallas.

The deal comes amid ongoing consolidation in the industry. Publicly traded giants, including Florida-based AutoNation and Oregon-based Lithia Motors have been snapping up smaller retail chains, often run by families who have been selling cars for generations.

It also could be possible that Buffett buys the Van Tuyl Group in order to create a new channel to sell auto insurance policies.

You also may like this: 3 Fairly Priced High-Margin Stocks Warren Buffett Would Like

I've also had some of my eyes on auto parts and car dealers in the past. The main problem was for me that they have no good diversification abroad. Most companies generate revenues in the United States but they have shown strong growth.

Below are five dividend paying alternatives from the auto dealership industry. Most of the industry members pay no dividends but for nearly all, double-digit earnings growth is predicted. If you like to follow my stories, please subscribe my blog news.

5 dividend paying auto dealers are..

26 Stocks Raised Dividends Over The Past Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth matters and has significant influence to your asset strategy. A higher dividend in the future also lifts your passive income from stock investing. It’s a good method to boost your total return.

Out there are many studies, telling you that nearly half of the average return on the stock market is responsible to dividend payments. That’s a huge number in my view but what if we are trying to find the best dividend stocks, stocks that are better than the average? I think about companies that pay in ten years more dividends to you than you have ever paid for the whole investment.

I strongly believe that this strategy will deliver good returns. The only problem is to discover these growth stocks that are willing to give you huge amounts of money back.

However, one way to get some ideas of the greatest dividend growth stocks is to look at the current lists of dividend growers. On my blog I publish on a regular basis these lists.

Last week, 26 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 25.49 percent.

Five of the results have a high yield of more than five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 16 of the latest dividend growth stocks.

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.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (May 07 – May 13, 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, 47 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 36 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 70.42 percent. Exactly 11 stocks have a yield over five percent and 26 are currently recommended to buy.