14 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

Last week was a weak one because only 14 companies announced to raise their dividends. Three of them have a high yield and ten a buy or better recommendation. In total they grew dividends by an average ratio of 16.57 percent.

Growing dividends are important because they show which companies are confident to manage future growth without additional capital. For you as investor, you get a higher passive income.

The biggest names on the best dividend growers list are National Grid, Seadrill and American Eagle Outfitters.

20 Highly Recommended Financial Dividend Shares | Stock Buy List

Financial dividend stocks with highest buy recommendation originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". One sector I’ve tried to avoid in the past was the financial sector. I have only stocks from financial services provider like Thomson Reuters or some Stock Exchange Operator like the NYX. Some major investors and hedge funds have started bets on the post financial recovery earlier with no greater success.

The whole financial industry is still in a crises and this should go on. I don’t know how long. Jobs in the industry are still degraded and as long as the interest rates are low and there will be more and more jobs degraded.

Despite the bad sector news, Last year, the financial sector was the top performing bet with a 27.5 percent gain. I missed this opportunity but as of today, I cannot evaluate all the risks within the sector. I have no idea what kind of risk assets banks have and how they manage them.

What do you think about the sector? Do you have some shares from banks or related industries? Let me know and leave a comment in the box below.

Today, I like to show you the 20 best recommended financial stocks with a higher capitalization (over USD 2 billion). Below the results are five with a high yield.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 13, 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.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on December 13, 2012. In total, 23 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.69%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TICC Capital Corp.	TICC	415.17M	6.02	1.02	6.49	11.54%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.55B	306.86	1.73	7.98	4.10%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	137.38B	20.54	2.47	2.87	3.81%
Western Union Co.	WU	7.89B	6.58	6.92	1.39	3.78%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	6.23B	24.90	4.39	4.08	3.48%
Gazit-Globe, Ltd.	GZT	1.98B	8.96	0.91	1.00	3.42%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	1.73B	13.06	0.62	0.79	3.10%
DDR Corp.	DDR	4.82B	-	1.45	6.13	3.08%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.48B	15.60	4.10	1.59	2.99%
ACE Limited	ACE	27.15B	10.17	1.01	1.53	2.45%
MTS Systems Corp.	MTSC	781.36M	15.51	3.44	1.44	2.41%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.83B	53.99	-	6.66	2.36%
Methanex Corp.	MEOH	2.96B	23.26	2.09	1.11	2.31%
Telephone & Data Systems	TDS	2.36B	21.14	0.60	0.44	2.17%
Globe Specialty Metals, Inc.	GSM	1.14B	41.11	2.28	1.56	1.64%
Home Bancshares	HOMB	928.15M	15.64	1.83	5.34	1.57%
DSW Inc.	DSW	2.93B	20.72	3.41	1.35	1.10%
Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.	TMO	23.51B	20.79	1.54	1.90	0.92%
First Citizens Bancshares Inc.	FCNCA	1.64B	11.40	0.83	1.64	0.75%

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On September 20, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on September 20, 2012. In total, 9 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.91%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, large capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Two Harbors Investment	TWO	3.30 b	10.10	1.19	9.94	12.18%
Ituran Location & Control	ITRN	274.25 m	10.43	3.24	1.78	8.22%
Gazit-Globe	GZT	1.70 b	7.57	0.84	0.90	3.87%
New Jersey Resources	NJR	1.93 b	20.61	2.30	0.82	3.45%
General Electric	GE	234.83 b	17.94	1.96	1.62	3.06%
Omnicom Group	OMC	14.28 b	15.77	4.37	1.01	2.23%
R.G. Barry Corporation	DFZ	164.91 m	11.52	2.22	1.06	2.17%
Hubbell	HUB-B	4.72 b	16.25	3.05	1.57	2.06%
Thor Industries	THO	1.87 b	16.83	2.30	0.63	2.04%