Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Recent Week, Sorted By Growth

Company	Ticker	New Yield in %	Dividend Growth	New Dividend	Old Dividend	Payment Period
Cheniere Energy Partners	CQH	6.71	2150.00%	0.45	0.02	Quarterly
NACCO Industries Cl A	NC	1.54	165.06%	0.165	0.06225	Quarterly
Air Lease	AL	0.93	33.33%	0.1	0.075	Quarterly
Ares Management	ARES	8.72	32.26%	0.41	0.31	Quarterly
DR Horton	DHI	1.09	25.00%	0.125	0.1	Quarterly
Inter Parfums	IPAR	1.94	23.53%	0.21	0.17	Quarterly
Alon USA Partners	ALDW	12.45	22.86%	0.43	0.35	Quarterly
BorgWarner	BWA	1.31	21.43%	0.17	0.14	Quarterly
Starbucks	SBUX	2.12	20.00%	0.3	0.25	Quarterly
Huntington Ingalls Inds	HII	1.14	20.00%	0.72	0.6	Quarterly
Fidelity D&D Bancorp	FDBC	2.51	16.13%	0.24	0.20667	Quarterly
Snap-On	SNA	2.07	15.49%	0.82	0.71	Quarterly
Hewlett Packard Ent	HPE	2.19	15.38%	0.075	0.065	Quarterly
Nelnet A	NNI	1.24	14.29%	0.16	0.14	Quarterly
Core-Mark Holding	CORE	1.38	11.11%	0.1	0.09	Quarterly
Automatic Data	ADP	2.24	10.53%	0.63	0.57	Quarterly
LCI Industries	LCII	1.90	10.00%	0.55	0.50	Quarterly
Six Flags Entertainment	SIX	4.3	9.38%	0.7	0.64	Quarterly
Primoris Services	PRIM	0.86	9.09%	0.06	0.06	Quarterly
Aaron?s Inc	AAN	0.34	9.09%	0.03	0.0275	Quarterly
National Bankshares	NKSH	2.79	8.93%	0.61	0.56	SemiAnnual
Atmos Energy	ATO	2.16	7.78%	0.485	0.45	Quarterly
Aircastle Ltd	AYR	4.7	7.69%	0.28	0.26	Quarterly
Natl Storage Affiliates	NSA	4.33	7.69%	0.28	0.26	Quarterly
NVIDIA	NVDA	0.28	7.14%	0.15	0.14	Quarterly
DTE Energy	DTE	3.16	6.97%	0.8825	0.825	Quarterly
Black Hills	BKH	3.18	6.74%	0.475	0.445	Quarterly
MainSource Fincl Group	MSFG	2.02	5.88%	0.18	0.17	Quarterly
Jones Lang LaSalle	JLL	0.52	5.71%	0.37	0.35	SemiAnnual
Arbor Realty Trust	ABR	8.93	5.56%	0.19	0.18	Quarterly
Ladder Capital Cl A	LADR	9.22	5.00%	0.315	0.3	Quarterly
EMC Insurance Group	EMCI	3.10	4.76%	0.22	0.21	Quarterly
Group 1 Automotive	GPI	1.26	4.17%	0.25	0.24	Quarterly
Sabine Royalty Tr UBI	SBR	4.36	4.14%	0.15715	0.1509	Monthly
AmerisourceBergen	ABC	2.03	4.11%	0.38	0.365	Quarterly
Easterly Govt Properties	DEA	5.06	4.00%	0.26	0.25	Quarterly
Acadia Realty Trust	AKR	3.69	3.85%	0.27	0.26	Quarterly
STRATS Dom Res Ser 05-06	GJP	3.44	3.34%	0.0637	0.06164	Monthly
Solar Capital	SLRC	7.53	2.50%	0.41	0.40	Quarterly
Global Water Resources	GWRS	2.9	2.47%	0.02363	0.02306	Monthly
4.65% Fltg. Rate STRATS	GJO	2.13	2.14%	0.03873	0.03792	Monthly
Universal Corp	UVV	4.01	1.85%	0.55	0.54	Quarterly
Sanchez Midstream Ptrs	SNMP	14.2	1.51%	0.4508	0.4441	Quarterly
Lexington Realty Trust	LXP	6.85	1.43%	0.1775	0.175	Quarterly
Emerson Electric	EMR	3.1	1.04%	0.485	0.48	Quarterly
Pattern Energy Group	PEGI	8.07	0.48%	0.422	0.42	Quarterly
Microchip Technology	MCHP	1.59	0.14%	0.36	0.36	Quarterly

All Dividend Growers From The Past Week And My Favorites

Have you ever noticed those that most vehemently attack a buy-and-hold strategy really don't understand how the strategy works? 

They confuse a buy-and-hold strategy with day trading with a longer duration. A true implementation of buy-and-hold includes a focus on blue-chip stocks with a sustainable advantage, along with a reasonable asset allocation framework. 

One sign of a blue-chip stock is a long string of dividend increases. Below all companies that have recently raised the bar by increasing their cash dividends

In total, 71 stocks announced a higher dividend of which 14 have a high yield (over 5%) and 40 a cheap forward P/E (less than 15).

Attached you will also find my 19 favorite stocks from the list. Each stock has solid fundamentals and earnings growth potenital while the debt situation is acceptable.

Here are the stocks:

38 Stocks And ETFs Let Their Dividends Jump Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Last week, 36 stocks and two ETFs announced to raise dividends. It’s great to see how the American dividend stock machine works. Compared to the number of stocks from the recent weeks, the current results are still thin but solid. The list of the weekly dividend grower is very volatile and the number of constituents is between 10 and 100. This week, the average growth rates amounts to 33.8, a value twice as much as the results from last week.

I love it to see how companies increase their dividend payments despite the fact that I would buy only a few of them. The biggest names on the list are Clorox, Coach, Marriott, Macy’s and Potash. Three of the results are High-Yields and 20 have a current buy or better rating.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (April 30 – May 06, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 62 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 39 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 36.44 percent. Exactly 23 stocks have a yield over five percent and 42 are currently recommended to buy.

John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation Q4-2011 Fund Portfolio

John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 38 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 1,238,963,000.

John W. Rogers fund positions as of Q4/2011 with actual share movements:

Sym - Stock	Portfolio Weight	Recent activity	Reported Price*
CBS - CBS Corp.	4.5	Reduce 16.38%	$27.14
VIA.B - Viacom Inc.	4.45	0	$45.41
AFL - AFLAC Inc.	4.29	0	$43.26
IPG - Interpublic Group	4.21	0	$9.73
DELL - Dell Inc.	3.95	0	$14.63
NTRS - Northern Trust Corp.	3.86	0	$39.66
LAZ - Lazard Ltd.	3.73	Add 5.48%	$26.11
MHK - Mohawk Industries	3.45	Reduce 7.72%	$59.85
JLL - Jones Lang Lasalle Inc.	3.29	0	$61.26
CCL - Carnival Corp.	3.25	0	$32.64
OMC - Omnicom Group	3.25	Reduce 5.43%	$44.58
BEN - Franklin Resources	3.11	Add 9.55%	$96.06
CHK - Chesapeake Energy	2.84	Add 21.89%	$22.29
FAF - First Amer'n Corp.	2.8	Add 28.36%	$12.67
ZMH - Zimmer Holdings	2.79	Reduce 24.14%	$53.42
TMO - Thermo Fisher Scientific	2.79	0	$44.97
JNS - Janus Capital Group	2.78	Add 21.39%	$6.31
IGT - International Game Technology	2.72	Reduce 6.87%	$17.20
STJ - St Jude Medical	2.67	Add 22.50%	$34.30
GCI - Gannett Co.	2.54	Reduce 26.06%	$13.37
SJM - Smucker (J.M.)	2.43	Reduce 10.64%	$78.17
SWK - Stanley Black & Decker Inc.	2.4	0	$67.60
BX - The Blackstone Group	2.4	Add 60.47%	$14.01
KKR - KKR & Co. L.P.	2.33	Add 65.00%	$12.83
ACN - Accenture	2.32	Reduce 17.15%	$53.23
DV - DeVRY Inc.	2.19	Add 57.19%	$38.46
MSG - Madison Square Garden Inc.	2.18	0	$28.64
ITW - Illinois Tool Works	2.03	0	$46.71
CBG - CBRE Group	2.03	0	$15.22
CYN - City National Corp.	1.81	Reduce 7.61%	$44.18
TROW - T. Rowe Price Group	1.6	Reduce 23.90%	$56.95
BIO - Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.	1.56	0	$96.04
JWN - Nordstrom	1.5	Reduce 27.00%	$49.71
HSP - Hospira Inc.	1.44	Add 21.60%	$30.37
BID - Sotheby's	1.43	Add 50.33%	$28.53
NWL - Newell Rubbermaid Co.	1.41	0	$16.15
BAX - Baxter International Inc.	0.99	Reduce 58.18%	$49.48
MAT - Mattel Inc.	0.7	Reduce 45.23%	$27.76

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CBS, VIA.B, AFL, IPG, DELL, NTRS, LAZ, MHK, JLL, CCL, OMC, BEN, CHK, FAF, ZHM, TMO, JNS, IGT, STJ, GCI, SJM, SWK, BX, KKR, CAN, DV, MSG, ITW, CBG, CYN, TROW, BIO, JWN, HSP, BID, NWL, BAX, MAT