Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week 20/2016

Dividend growth investing is a popular model followed by the investing community to build assets. 

Companies which not only pay dividends, but raise them year after year have been shown to perform better overall for investor returns. 

Following companies announced dividend increases this week. These are the dividend grower from the past week... If you like them to receive in the future, just subscribe to my free newsletter.

Company	Ticker	New Yield	Dividend Growth in %
Connecticut Water Service	CTWS	2.31	5.61%
Hawthorn Bancshares	HWBK	1.34	3.99%
Mesa Royalty Trust	MTR	3.14	8.66%
MetLife Floating Ser A	META	4.08	1.10%
Clorox Co	CLX	2.5	3.90%
Group 1 Auto	GPI	1.53	4.55%
JPMorgan Chase	JPM	3	9.09%
Leggett&Platt	LEG	2.8	6.25%
Northrop Grumman	NOC	1.68	12.50%
Blue Hills Bancorp	BHBK	0.81	50.00%
First Financial Indiana	THFF	2.81	2.04%
Monro Muffler Brake	MNRO	1.1	13.33%
Republic Bancorp KY Cl A	RBCAA	3.08	5.56%
Southwest Airlines	LUV	0.95	33.33%
Towne Bank	TOWN	2.5	8.33%
United Fire Group	UFCS	2.42	13.64%
Brocade Comm Systems	BRCD	2.76	22.22%
Gentex	GNTX	2.27	5.88%
Houlihan Lokey Cl A	HLI	2.94	13.33%
KeyCorp	KEY	2.72	13.33%
Kilroy Realty	KRC	2.42	7.14%
Marsh&McLennan	MMC	2.12	9.68%
Medical Properties Tr	MPW	6.53	4.55%

20 Low Yielding Dividend Achievers That Might Deliver A Better Total Return Than High-Yield Stocks

This blog is mainly focused on high-quality dividend paying stocks that delivered a solid trustful dividend growth history in the past.

I'm also focused on higher yielding stocks because I do believe that those companies offer a better risk compensation and their business model allows it to generate a higher amount of free cash which could be distributed to shareholders.

But you need to look more into the balance sheets and income statements of a company in order to identify such a cash flow strength. 

A high yield doesn't mean that you will also get a high total return. If you get big dividends but the stock price falls, your return will turn negative.

The attached chart spells out the cost to the investor of focusing on yield over a long period of investing history. 

Investors who emphasized yield when purchasing stocks from this group of beloved cherry-picked Dividend Growth stocks missed out on earning the equivalent of a year's worth of a nice middle-class salary over the 18 years studied here.

You might see that a portfolio with lower yielding stocks delivered more total return due to a larger stock price appreciation than higher yielding stocks with lower growth possibilities.

Today I would like to introduce a few lower yielding Dividend Achievers with a fantastic future prediction. The attached list ranks midcap plus Dividend Achievers by its future EPS growth forecast. Only stocks with a debt to equity ratio under 1 were observed.

Here are the 20 top results, sorted by growth...

20 Low Yielding Dividend Achievers
That Might Deliver A Better Total Return
Than High-Yield Stocks
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Consumer Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratios

Consumer goods dividend stocks with highest float short ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Consumer goods stocks are often the most preferred source for dividend growth investors. I don’t know why but the consumer sector has the largest amount of stocks with a solid dividend history. They are less volatile and work with good margins. For sure, the growth perspectives are not a good as for technology stocks and the debt is also everything else than slim but they are still attractive.

Today I like to close my monthly article serial about dividend stocks with the highest float short ratio. Here are the links from the serial:

· 20 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Industrials With Highest Bets On A Falling Stock Price

· 20 Most Hated Dividend Stocks From The Services Sector

· 20 Highly Shorted Financial Dividend Stocks

· 8 Utility Dividend Stocks With The Highest Float Short Ratio

· 20 Technology Dividend Stocks, Most Shorted By Investors

· 13 Highly Shorted Healthcare Dividend Stocks

Today I like to look at the consumer goods stocks and excluded stocks with a market capitalization below 300 million as well as stocks without dividends.

My top 20 stocks have a float short ratio between 8.21 percent and 28.92 percent. The highest short selling stock is Pitney Bowes. The company is followed by the auto parts seller Monro Muffler Brake.

Despite the huge number of pessimistic investors, analysts recommended 13 of the results.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (May 21 – May 27, 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, 21 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 14 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 19.29 percent. Exactly four stocks have a yield over five percent and seven are currently recommended to buy.