30 Top Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 30 companies announced a dividend hike within the recent week. Only six of them are large capitalized stocks and five are really cheap in terms of a low forward P/E.

It’s in line with our recognition of rising stock market multiples. Real cheap stocks are very rare. The most dangerous item are growth expectations. Growth let earnings multiples grow but you need low multiples with a solid growing business to make a good return.

The biggest results are Itau Unibanco, Goldman Sachs and Abbott Laboratories as well.

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%

12 Dividend Challengers With Huge Potential To Become A Dividend Hero

Best Dividend Challengers Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Challengers are stocks with a history of rising dividends of more than 5 years in a row but less than 10 years. 190 companies have fulfilled these dividend growth criteria but only a few have the potential to become a big dividend growth stock like Coca Cola or Procter&Gamble.

In order to find the best dividend paying growth stocks from the investment class Dividend Challengers, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent as well an operating margin over 15 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.5. Twelve Dividend Challengersremained of which nine are currently recommended to buy.