20 Highly Recommended Dividend Challengers

Dividend Challengers are stocks with a history of consecutive rising dividends of more than 5 years but less than 10 years. If you believe this is a criterion only fulfilled by a few companies, you are right. There are only 113 stocks with such a dividend growth history.

Dividend growth is very important for your retirement funds. If you buy several of the best dividend growth shares, you could double your passive income from dividend in ten years easily. Over twenty years, your dividends should quadruple.

Smart investors like you are always looking for simple stock trade ideas of highly recommended stocks. I like to combine both criteria. I screened all Dividend Challengers by the best rating notes from brokerage firms. In order to eliminate the risks of lower capitalized stocks, the market capitalization should be over $2 billion.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 29, 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 October 29, 2012. In total, 44 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.05%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Atlantic Power Corporation	AT	5.12B	5.59	2.16	0.59	7.90%
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc.	OHI	2.57B	25.42	2.73	8.09	7.45%
Copano Energy LLC	CPNO	2.31B	-	2.63	1.69	7.21%
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.	EPB	8.06B	18.05	3.88	5.42	6.30%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP	KMP	29.79B	18.55	2.73	3.66	5.87%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	5.63B	17.87	4.12	5.05	5.77%
National Retail Properties, Inc.	NNN	3.47B	33.79	1.55	11.45	4.92%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	48.63B	19.74	3.91	1.11	4.81%
Kinder Morgan, Inc.	KMI	36.35B	29.46	2.81	4.12	4.11%
Brookfield Office Properties	BOXC	2.73B	-	3.41	5.61	4.08%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	4.94B	17.38	1.53	1.47	4.05%
Western Gas Partners LP	WES	5.00B	33.22	3.08	6.46	3.83%
NiSource Inc.	NI	7.28B	23.22	1.43	1.38	3.76%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	11.54B	18.75	2.52	0.85	3.53%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	32.01B	20.53	2.87	2.40	2.99%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	3.23B	16.68	5.86	2.70	2.85%
AO Smith Corp.	AOS	2.74B	18.23	2.30	1.45	1.35%
Morgan Stanley	MS	33.89B	-	0.55	1.10	1.17%

12 Best Dividend Paying Utilities To Consider

Best Dividend Paying Utilities Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The utility sector is a great investment field with fantastic value and sustainable high dividends. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 18.68 trillion and summarizes 117 companies. The average dividend yield amounts to 4.24 percent and the P/E ratio is 15.51.

In order to find the best dividend paying stocks within the sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than five percent and an operating margin over 20 percent. In order get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under one. Twelve utility companies remained of which nine yielding over three percent and eight are currently recommended to buy.

Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week 2/2012

Stocks With 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, 9 stocks raised dividends of which 4 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 9.90 percent.

Here are the stocks with fast dividend growth:

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Plains All American Pipelines (NYSE: PAA) has a market capitalization of $10.97 billion. The company employs 3,500 people, generates revenues of $25,893.00 million and has a net income of $514.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,016.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 3.92 percent (operating margin 2.96 percent and the net profit margin finally 1.99 percent).


The total debt representing 43.47 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 137.19 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 8.01 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.18. Last fiscal year, the company paid $3.76 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.56, Price/Sales 0.44 and Price/Book ratio 2.45. Dividend Yield: 5.58 percent. The beta ratio is 0.48.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Plains All American Pi... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from Plains All American Pi... (NYSE: PAA) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Plains All American Pi... (NYSE: PAA) (Click to enlarge)

ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE) has a market capitalization of $23.50 billion. The company employs 16,000 people, generates revenues of $16,006.00 million and has a net income of $3,108.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $6,212.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 38.81 percent (operating margin 22.81 percent and the net profit margin finally 19.42 percent).


The total debt representing 5.59 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 20.28 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 14.58 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.37. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.30 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.98, Price/Sales 1.47 and Price/Book ratio 1.02. Dividend Yield: 2.69 percent. The beta ratio is 0.76.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of ACE Limited (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 9.90 percent.

Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week 2/2012 (Click to enlarge)

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