19 Best Insurance Dividend Growth Stocks To Consider Now

If there is one thing every investor can appreciate, it is a growing stream of reliable dividends. Some sectors have more dividend champions than others. The insurance sector is a useful place for investors who want to align their personal risks with their portfolio. 

If insurance companies are able to increase prices and profits, owning the insurance companies should lead to stronger dividends at the same time that insurance costs will be increasing. However, it can be difficult for investors to determine which insurance stocks would be the best fit for their portfolio.

Insurers are big asset managers and depend on the market conditions. But not all insurers are equal. Life insurers suffer more on this weak interest environment than property and casualty insurer.

Attached you can find the best investment opportunities from the industry. I've only listed those stocks with a long dividend growth history. In addition, each of the stocks has a low forward P/E and a positive earnings growth outlook for the next five years. In addition, the debt-to-equity ratio is under 0.5. As a result, 19 stocks joined the list.

Here are the results:

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 13, 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, 22 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.67%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Life Partners Holdings, Inc.	LPHI	41.21M	-	1.39	2.37	9.05%
LS Starrett Co.	SCX	71.46M	-	0.56	0.29	3.81%
Potlatch Corporation	PCH	1.59B	23.79	10.27	2.80	3.16%
Chemung Financial Corp.	CHMG	153.71M	15.28	1.16	3.02	3.15%
Horace Mann Educators Corp.	HMN	1.09B	9.66	0.99	1.06	2.84%
Renasant Corp.	RNST	667.43M	22.42	1.33	4.23	2.57%
Huntington Bancshares	HBAN	7.19B	12.13	1.33	3.80	2.32%
Gulfmark Offshore, Inc.	GLF	1.29B	61.95	1.32	3.20	2.02%
R.G. Barry Corporation	DFZ	217.41M	16.62	2.54	1.48	1.88%
The Men's Wearhouse, Inc.	MW	1.96B	14.52	1.81	0.78	1.86%
Harley-Davidson, Inc.	HOG	14.13B	20.44	5.01	2.44	1.33%
Ecolab Inc.	ECL	28.97B	34.44	4.35	2.36	0.96%
Air Lease Corporation	AL	2.76B	17.80	1.14	3.61	0.37%