156 October Dividend Growth Stocks Compilation

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. A big part of this involves capturing the details.

As part of my due diligence, I closely monitor all companies that raise dividends (or cut them) and this article shares the dividend amount changes announced by companies.

Note that only companies with a market cap of $2B+ are included, as the list of small/micro cap companies is too long to include here.

October dividend raises and can be found here...

Gold Comes Back: Here Are The 15 Best Dividend Ideas From The Industry

Dividend stocks – that term says a lot. You buy a stock and on a recurring basis it pays you a cash dividend....And over time, thanks to those cash distributions and capital appreciation fueled by shareholder loyalty, the stock price rises. 

That’s a great way to build wealth. Another way is to buy gold. Gold is a true hard value and should hedge your cash against inflation.

In the past, it worked really well until gold prices began to crash. In recent days we see a small turnaround of gold prices. The leading big reserve banks still pumping tons of money into the market and a fear of recession is increasing.

However, I'm not a gold investor and don't have any gold stocks but for sentiment or momentum trader, it could be a great trading idea to bet on rising gold prices with gold dividend stocks.

Attached I've compiled all 15 gold stocks that pay a dividend. If you have any comments, please share your thoughts at the box below. Thank you for reading and contributing.

20 Best Performing Dividend Stocks Year-To-Date 2016

The start in the year was not as perfect as we have expected. At the end of last year, we saw a small bounce back to all-time highs but during the first month of the year 2016 we saw a small disaster. 

The Dow Jones is down 7.29% and the S&P 500 6.88% for the first 4 weeks of the year. Despite the bad start into the year, a dozen of stocks gained more than 10 percent. 

If this is a small signal for the rest of the year or a simple different reaction, we will see it over the next months.

Today I like to show you the 20 best performing dividend stocks since the start of the year 2016. They gained from 11.23% to 50.57% in the first 30 days of the year 2016.

Here are the best dividend stocks since the start of the year 2016...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 03, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 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.

In total, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.08%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Telefonica Brasil, S.A.	VIV	22.35B	12.68	1.18	1.53	7.74%
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	3.32B	-	1.10	2.99	6.33%
Cedar Fair, L.P.	FUN	2.36B	34.55	59.86	2.17	5.88%
Weingarten Realty Investors	WRI	3.55B	69.67	2.64	8.64	4.17%
CNOOC Ltd.	CEO	89.25B	8.28	1.66	2.04	3.71%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	48.27B	9.76	1.49	2.38	3.47%
Newmont Mining Corp.	NEM	15.82B	-	1.41	1.73	3.14%
Hancock Holding Co.	HBHC	2.72B	14.85	1.16	3.65	2.94%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	54.64B	9.64	1.69	2.16	2.84%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	12.11B	15.24	1.30	1.30	2.53%
Aqua America Inc.	WTR	4.38B	20.89	3.07	5.64	2.44%
The Home Depot, Inc.	HD	107.62B	22.14	6.96	1.38	2.08%
Bank of New York Mellon	BK	34.38B	18.53	1.00	10.20	2.01%
Owens Realty Mortgage, Inc.	ORM	3.04B	-	16.77	188.97	1.74%
Valhi, Inc.	VHI	6.82B	-	-	3.40	1.00%
Solera Holdings Inc.	SLH	3.64B	38.64	5.02	4.46	0.94%
Citigroup, Inc.	C	147.38B	15.49	0.77	2.26	0.08%

Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of July 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend stocks with lovely looking fundamentals and cheap price ratios can promise you a good return but they are also very rare. The higher the efforts of your screen are, the lower the number of results you get. Today I would like to update my monthly screen about the cheapest dividend paying stocks on the capital market. I use six very strong criteria and only around a dozen companies remain each month.

My criteria for the cheap large cap screen are:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Expected Earnings per share growth over 10 percent for the next year.

- P/E ratio under 15

- P/S and P/B ratio under 2

- Positive Dividends

Thirteen companies fulfilled this time the criteria and nine of them have a current buy or better rating. One stock has a high yield on a twelve trailing month basis (5 percent dividend yield). To buy cheap stocks is no guarantee for a return but you get value for what you pay and the possibility to overpay a stock is also low is the business model is somehow stable.

Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of June 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. It's always good to own cheap stocks in order to gain a return. 

For sure, cheapness is a question of definition and in the end its growth that makes a stock cheap or expensive. 

I make each month a screen about the cheapest large capitalized dividend stocks. Below are screening criteria; they are very sternly in my view. I use this screen to find some attractive bargains. In a hot market it's ever hard to find low valuated stocks with great earnings growth perspectives. Especially within the recent months, the number of results decreased rapidly. Let’s look if the recent crisis 5/21 had some positive effects for the screen.

My criteria for the cheap large cap screen are:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Expected Earnings per share growth over 10 percent for the next year.

- P/E ratio under 15

- P/S and P/B ratio under 2

- Positive Dividends

Thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria. It’s exactly one stock less than last month. Two High-Yields are below the results and eight stocks have a current buy or better rating.

Next Week's 20 Best Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between June 10 - 16, 2013. In total, 223 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 90 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.71%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Vodafone Group plc	VOD	156.10B	-	1.26	2.30	6.95%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	34.61B	13.73	2.55	1.80	5.07%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	72.61B	16.74	20.42	2.96	4.87%
Encana Corporation	ECA	13.61B	-	2.90	3.08	4.32%
Newmont Mining Corp.	NEM	16.79B	10.53	1.21	1.79	4.10%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.74B	15.66	1.55	1.30	3.88%
Rogers Communications Inc.	RCI	23.07B	13.73	6.03	1.90	3.77%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	145.52B	24.59	2.74	3.15	3.57%
Teck Resources Limited	TCK	14.60B	16.78	0.82	1.50	3.46%
Public Storage	PSA	26.43B	38.16	3.02	14.23	3.25%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	22.64B	31.88	2.38	1.42	3.14%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	184.43B	21.68	5.67	3.85	2.70%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.54B	12.25	1.92	0.60	2.69%
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	ADP	33.44B	24.09	5.10	3.00	2.53%
Omnicom Group Inc.	OMC	16.53B	17.52	5.21	1.16	2.50%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	48.23B	-	2.05	0.42	2.34%
Macy's, Inc.	M	19.03B	14.30	3.12	0.68	2.06%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	19.63B	21.50	4.78	6.31	2.01%
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	13.05B	22.15	1.96	2.22	1.98%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.	MSI	15.47B	18.02	5.00	1.77	1.83%