These 29 Stocks Hiked Their Dividend Payments Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I strongly believe that dividend growth investing will deliver good returns. As of now, I quadrupled my net worth by trading dividend growth stocks and boosted my passive income to a five-figure annual salary.

It’s great to see how everybody can build a portfolio of stocks that is growing and becomes better over the time. It feels like you are a real investor. Not playing with money or spending it. You invest it. You watch your assets and observe how your portfolio companies develop over the time. Some stocks will disappoint you and fail for sure. But if you have a good diversification of at least 50 shares or more, your average return will be great.

However, back to the current dividend growth stocks from last week. On my blog long-term-investments.blogspot.com, I publish on a regular basis lists of the latest dividend growers.

Last week, 29 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you. You can also find a compilation of price and yield ratios there. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 17.03 percent.

Four of the results have a high yield of more than five percent and three yielding over 10%. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 14 of the latest dividend growth stocks.

Next Week's Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between June 17 - 23, 2013. In total, 58 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 31 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.94%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Total SA	TOT	119.07B	10.08	1.17	0.50	5.47%
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.90B	32.48	2.09	2.29	4.91%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	14.63B	15.01	1.59	1.42	3.81%
Iron Mountain Inc.	IRM	5.52B	37.09	4.95	1.84	3.73%
Piedmont Natural Gas Co. Inc.	PNY	2.58B	19.08	2.25	2.21	3.63%
Portland General Electric	POR	2.33B	16.54	1.33	1.29	3.57%
Cincinnati Financial Corp.	CINF	7.55B	15.50	1.30	1.79	3.53%
KAR Auction Services, Inc.	KAR	3.12B	33.46	2.16	1.55	3.34%
Safeway Inc.	SWY	5.87B	9.98	1.96	0.13	3.28%
Greif, Inc.	GEF	2.54B	20.08	1.90	0.60	3.13%
Tupperware Brands Corporation	TUP	4.26B	23.37	9.83	1.64	3.08%
Embotelladora Andina S.A.	AKO-B	5.70B	26.01	3.08	2.30	3.07%
Pinnacle Foods Inc.	PF	2.81B	40.90	2.29	1.14	2.89%
Federal Realty Investment Trust	FRT	6.90B	47.87	5.27	11.14	2.76%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	15.58B	20.70	2.88	2.26	2.68%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	46.56B	29.24	6.36	3.99	2.48%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	22.37B	13.66	1.40	1.63	2.04%
International Game Technology	IGT	4.49B	16.75	3.68	1.96	1.86%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	9.63B	23.08	3.63	2.49	1.80%
Total System Services, Inc.	TSS	4.39B	18.05	3.03	2.34	1.71%

22 Dividend Boosters From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 13 stocks and 9 funds announced a dividend hike within the recent week. The number of dividend growers remains weak.

The biggest names on the list are United Health and Lowe’s as well as Fedex. In addition, five companies cut dividends and one announced a special initial dividend.

I know it’s hard to manage dividend growth especially when the company is acting within a very cyclic industry. But dividend growth is an expression to shareholders about the company’s success and the willingness to share profits with the ownership of the company.

10 of the 13 stocks are currently recommended to buy.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 19, 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks March 19, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.44%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Box Ships Inc.	TEU	110.93M	6.97	0.39	1.72	16.60%
Solar Capital Ltd.	SLRC	1.11B	7.90	1.09	7.23	9.74%
Apollo Investment Corporation	AINV	1.77B	12.30	1.07	5.50	9.16%
Ituran Location & Control Ltd.	ITRN	385.31M	13.79	4.39	2.56	8.04%
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	222.03M	13.21	1.05	10.81	7.31%
Medallion Financial Corp.	TAXI	278.55M	10.73	1.30	8.61	6.78%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.18B	9.62	1.83	13.07	5.46%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	14.23B	15.75	1.60	1.40	3.71%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	7.25B	-	2.37	0.15	3.17%
CEC Entertainment Inc.	CEC	576.20M	13.14	3.89	0.72	2.98%
Jinpan International Ltd.	JST	90.20M	5.85	0.47	0.41	2.18%
Kinross Gold Corporation	KGC	9.03B	-	0.92	2.09	2.02%
International Game Technology	IGT	4.50B	17.92	3.60	2.01	1.88%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	44.18B	28.97	6.25	3.97	1.87%
International Flavors & Fragrances	IFF	6.21B	24.64	4.98	2.20	1.79%
Total System Services, Inc.	TSS	4.53B	18.83	3.19	2.42	1.65%
Synovus Financial Corp.	SNV	2.24B	3.34	0.63	2.23	1.41%
Meadowbrook Insurance Group	MIG	346.24M	30.17	0.62	0.35	1.15%
Air Lease Corporation	AL	2.92B	22.94	1.27	4.45	0.34%