77 Top Dividend Growth Stocks | A Full Compilation Of Stocks With Recent Dividend Growth

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

77! That’s the number of stocks and funds which raised dividends last week. It’s the highest amount this year and the highest for several months. 

Dividend growth is often a good sign for a healthy business. Corporate leaders like to give money back that they don’t need for their business. They also expect a strong incoming cash flow.

Yesterday, I started to tweet some of those stocks with recent dividend growth via my @DividendSheet account on twitter. You can also follow me there in order get more dividend stock ideas - quick and short informative with current yield and price-earnings figures. I ever try to limit my thoughts but I cover over 50,000 stocks on the world and a few hundreds of them are very good dividend growth investments.

However, 77 stocks and funds raised dividends last week of which 44 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 40.67 percent. Linked is a small list of all companies and funds with some price ratios to compare.

Below the results are 14 High-Yields, stocks with over 5 percent dividend yield. 47 companies have a current buy or better rating.

Best Dividend Paying Stocks | Ex-Dividend Shares November 28, 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 November 28, 2012. In total, 139 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 61 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.10%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
National Grid plc	NGG	41.62B	11.33	2.87	1.92	5.54%
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	15.77B	14.59	-	2.41	5.09%
Dominion Resources, Inc.	D	28.95B	24.47	2.41	2.21	4.17%
Northeast Utilities	NU	11.96B	19.06	1.28	2.11	3.60%
NextEra Energy, Inc.	NEE	28.34B	13.22	1.81	1.92	3.53%
CSX Corp.	CSX	20.64B	11.18	2.29	1.75	2.80%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	167.57B	19.46	5.05	3.52	2.73%
Magna International, Inc.	MGA	10.62B	7.69	1.16	0.35	2.41%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	28.09B	13.41	3.71	1.34	2.41%
TE Connectivity Ltd.	TEL	14.82B	12.94	1.86	1.12	2.39%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	35.28B	10.53	1.40	2.49	2.27%
Union Pacific Corporation	UNP	57.33B	15.10	2.94	2.76	2.26%
Time Warner Inc.	TWX	44.05B	17.62	1.47	1.53	2.24%
Dover Corp.	DOV	11.40B	13.75	2.20	1.35	2.20%
The Allstate Corporation	ALL	19.49B	7.65	0.94	0.59	2.18%
Nordstrom Inc.	JWN	10.90B	16.54	5.78	0.93	1.99%
The Goldman Sachs Group	GS	56.83B	11.64	0.77	1.47	1.65%
AngloGold Ashanti Ltd.	AU	12.05B	9.44	2.12	1.79	1.33%
Estee Lauder Companies	EL	22.97B	26.72	7.60	2.35	0.89%
SunTrust Banks	STI	14.66B	8.86	0.72	2.44	0.74%

The Best Dividend Paying Apparel Stores

Best Yielding Apparel Stores Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Apparel store concepts could generate big values for investors if the companies hit the desire of their customers. If so, they could tenfold revenues in a decade. Better if the stocks pay a little dividend and raise it continuously.

I screened the apparel store industry by the best yielding stocks. The whole industry includes 46 companies of which 21 pay dividends. The average industry dividend yield amounts to 1.63 with a P/E of 16.20.