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.

19 Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Sector Growth

Consumer dividend stocks with highest expected growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Growth, that’s the most important factor when you trade stocks and like to make money over the long-run.

Growth is a must have but with rising growth rates, price ratios also go up. You should be careful with stocks that have a P/E ratio over 20 and a huge load of debt.

Today, I like to screen stocks from the consumer goods sector, one of my favorite investment fields. 2/3 of my personal stock holdings have a relation to the consumer area. I love those stocks especially when they are well managed and pay great dividends.

Consumer stocks are normally characterized by low cyclic stocks which produce solid returns on the invested capital. My screening criteria are:

- Positive Dividend Yield

- Market Capitalization over 10 billion

- Relationship to the Consumer Goods Sector

- EPS Growth over 10 Percent for the next 5 Years

Nineteen stocks matched my criteria of which fifteen have a current buy or better ratio. Car maker and supplier of them are dominating the results. Those are also stocks with the highest beta ratios.