50 Top Stocks With The Highest Dividend Growth In February 2013

Shares with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend growth is wonderful. It helps you to grow your own wealth and build up a passive income without hard work.

Growth is a must have for every investor who wants to increase their net worth. You also need growth in order to boost your passive income for an earlier retirement especially when you have not a high paid job or rich parents. This is how it works: If you purchase a stock today with 3 percent yield, growth can lift up your yield on cost to 30 percent in 20 years.

Today I like to show you the 50 fastest dividend growth stocks and funds from the last 30 days. There are some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates which indicate a strong business health. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 72.68 percent. The average yield is still at 3.61 percent.

Dividend Growth: 69 Stocks And Funds Increased Dividends Last Week

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

Last week was an additional strong week with 69 dividend hike announcements. The most popular hike was released by Wal-Mart who increased dividend payments by 18.2 percent. I own shares of WMT and was impressed. When I bought the stock, I knew that there is potential to double dividends at flat earnings because of the low payout figures.

Additional highlights from last week’s best dividend growth stocks are Texas Instruments (Dividends are up by 1/3), Kimberly Clark (+9.5 percent dividend increase) and Coca Cola (+9.8 percent).

Summarized: 69 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 48 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 34.90 percent. Linked is a small list of all companies and funds with some price ratios to compare.

Below the results are six High-Yields. 33 companies have a current buy or better rating.

17 Cheap Growth Stocks From The Basic Material Sector With Current Dividend Payments

Basic material dividend stocks with highest expected growth and low price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Good stocks to buy are hard to find. But what are good stocks?

Good investment indicators

Primarily it’s a question of your investment philosophy or screening criteria. I am focused on dividend stocks with great yields, strong market positions and low limitations to grow. I also invest into stocks with no yields or low dividend payments.

Don’t look at the yield alone

The dividend yield is only an expression and should never be a single investment criterion. I know so many people who only look at the P/E ratio and the dividend yield and argue that the stock is cheap at a P/E below 10. That’s too easy. If the company has no debt, you should look the enterprise value.

Growth is the value driver

More important is growth. If a company doubles every 3 years sales and earnings, it’s normal that the stock is highly valuated. Stock valuation is a very complex area.

Today I like to screen some opportunities from the basic material sector. 595 stocks are available with a relationship to the raw material sector – nearly 300 of them pay dividends. The average sector P/E ratio amounts to 11.08 at a yield of 2.98 percent.

I screened large capitalized stocks with very high expected earnings per share growth for the next five years (over 10 percent) and a low forward P/E ratio of less than 15. Seventeen stocks fulfilled my criteria of which twelve are currently recommended to buy. Two High-Yields are below the results.

Best Basic Material Dividend Stock Buy Picks For 2013

Basic material stocks became popular with the increase in raw material prices due to the strong growth of China from the recent year. Not only directly commodity mining stocks exploded, also supplier of mining equipment started to boom. The basic material sector is a small investment field with around 600 listed companies. I made a list of the best stocks picks for next year. My criteria are:

- Forward P/E under 15

- Past 5Y Sales growth over 10 percent

- Earnings per share growth for the next five years over 10 percent

- Operating Margin over 10 percent

- Market capitalization above USD 10 billion

Nine higher capitalized stocks remained the screening criteria of which eight are currently recommended to buy. The results are dominated by stocks from the oil & gas equipment and services industry. I am not sure if these picks could be the best growth driver for your private wealth. Sure, America is expected to have a current energy boom due to shale gas.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 04, 2012

The Best Yielding 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 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 04, 2012. In total, 17 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.43%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Northrim Bancorp Inc.	NRIM	143.92M	11.16	1.07	3.20	8.10%
TAL International Group, Inc.	TAL	1.14B	8.84	1.90	2.00	7.28%
Royce Focus Trust, Inc.	FUND	140.81M	-	0.95	57.01	5.33%
Weingarten Realty Investors	WRI	3.38B	194.14	2.02	6.65	4.27%
CEC Entertainment Inc.	CEC	559.64M	11.86	3.83	0.70	3.07%
Newmont Mining Corp.	NEM	23.15B	117.73	1.75	2.28	2.97%
Amcol International Corp.	ACO	964.87M	14.66	2.16	0.98	2.65%
G&K Services Inc.	GKSR	648.17M	23.06	1.55	0.73	2.30%
Lender Processing Services	LPS	2.11B	29.58	3.86	1.01	1.61%
Lear Corp.	LEA	4.23B	8.72	1.59	0.29	1.28%
Halliburton Company	HAL	30.95B	10.65	2.04	1.09	1.08%
Donaldson Company, Inc.	DCI	4.97B	20.48	5.21	2.01	1.07%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	8.25B	255.82	2.56	19.12	1.07%
Franklin Resources Inc.	BEN	28.03B	14.78	3.05	3.95	0.82%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	64.41B	12.12	1.98	3.25	0.74%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	58.60B	10.73	1.80	2.46	0.71%
Southwest Airlines Co.	LUV	7.03B	14.89	1.01	0.41	0.42%

The Best Large Cap Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Growth Potential

Large Capitalized Dividend Stocks From The Basic Material Sector With Highest EPS Growth Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Basic Material stocks are important for the economy. They are also very cyclic and depending on commodity prices. Despite the downward trend of the economic growth worldwide, stocks from the sector are still on the buy list of many investors.

I screened some investment ideas from the basic material sector with a higher market capitalization (over USD 10 billion) and very high expected earnings per share growth of more than 15 percent yearly for the next five years. Nineteen companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which three are high-yields and seventeen are currently recommended to buy.

The two best results come from the gold and silver industry. Otherwise, the results are mainly marked by oil and gas related companies.

Cheapest Large Caps With Highest Expected Growth As Of April 2012

Cheapest Large Capitalized Stocks With Highest Earnings Per Share Growth By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of America’s cheapest Large Caps with the highest expected growth for the upcoming fiscal year. Stocks from the sheet have a market capitalization of more than USD 10 billion and earnings per share are expected to grow for at least 20 percent. Despite the strong growth, they still have a P/E ratio of less than 20 and a P/S ratio of less than 2. Twelve stocks fulfilled these criteria of which nine pay dividends. Ten of the results are recommended to buy. The highest yielding stocks is the steel and iron company Arcelor Mittal with a yield of 4.41 percent.

12 Of The S&P 500 Dividend Stocks With Highest Expected Growth

Fastest Growing S&P 500 Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index is of huge importance and often used by investors for their asset allocation. The index includes 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy, capturing 75 percent coverage of U.S. equities. Year-to-date, the index is up 11.64 percent which is roughly four percentage points above the performance of the Dow Jones but also six percentage points below the NASDAQ Composite index. Growth and expectations of growth is driving the performance of the indices.

I screened stocks from the S&P 500 by dividend yield and growth figures: First, the dividend yield should be positive and second, the expected earnings per share growth for the next five years should be over 25 percent. Twelve companies fulfilled these criteria of which nine are recommended to buy.