34 Stocks Increased Dividends Recently | 10 High-Yields

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. For all dividend seekers out there: I am publishing each week a list of stocks and funds that have raised their dividend payments within the recent week.

Dividend growth is a very important item when you are active in the field of dividend investing. Growth creates wealth and nothing else. All you need is time and patience.

This week, 34 stocks increased their dividend payments of which 10 are High-Yields and 19 are currently recommended to buy. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.29 percent.

Popular stocks from the list are the railroad company CSX or the pipeline operator Kinder Morgan. A stock that I personally love is the Dividend King Procter & Gamble who hiked its dividends by 7 percent. The results are very mixed but oil and gas pipeline companies still dominating the screen.

17 Safest Stocks From The Financial Sector

Financial stocks with low beta ratios and high market capitalization originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The financial sector is still under fire. Low interest rates and higher risks within the bond buying industry make it hard to earn money on investments. As a result, thousands of people lose their job and the sector is shrinking. Bank of America cut its workforce by over 30,000 people and their competitors follow.

Not everything is bad within the financial sector. If you have followed my screens over the past months, you could find there more and more good looking banks and asset managers as well as insurers.

Today I like to discover the best yielding dividend stocks from the financial sector with real safe heaven characteristics. My criteria are:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Beta ratio below 1

The stock should have a lower volatility than the overall market. For sure, these are not the only trigger ratios to seek out the highest degree of stability for a stock. Especially in the financial sector are more risks than in other industries. Banks are still black boxes because you never know what kind of risk exposure they have in detail.

The screen produced 17 stocks of which two have a double-digit yield. Eight of them are currently recommended to buy.

Financial Dividend Stocks: 20 Best Yielding Growth Opportunities

Financial dividend stocks with best yields and high growth rates originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". The financial sector is one of the biggest sectors where you can find stocks or asset vehicles to place your money. Roughly 2,800 stocks and funds are listed with a financial relationship. Only 724 of them are dividend stocks.

I personally do not invest into funds. I also put no money into ETFs because my major job is stock research and asset allocation for my own money. I like to eliminate the good stocks from the bad ones. Funds and ETFs put all stocks into a basket. They diversify money by covering indices they have bought from other financial service providers. I don’t know how they select these assets and I will never trust them. It’s my money and I am responsible the return in the end.

Today, I like to go forward with my monthly dividend screen of the best yielding growth stocks for the mid-term. Linked is a small list of the 20 best yielding financial stocks with double-digit earnings growth forecast for the next five years. Because of the high number of results, I decided to exclude all stocks with a market capitalization below USD 10 billion. Ten of the results have a buy or better recommendation.

The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (March 12 - 18, 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, 22 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 15 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.29 percent. The biggest hike was announced by Cliffs Natural Resources (CLF) who raised its quarterly distributions by 123.2 percent from $0.28 to $0.625.

John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation Q4-2011 Fund Portfolio

John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation Q4-2011 Fund Investing Strategies By Dividend Yield – Stock Capital, Investment. Here is a current portfolio update of John W. Rogers - Ariel Appreciation - portfolio movements as of Q4/2011 (December 31, 2011). In total, he has 38 stocks with a total portfolio worth of USD 1,238,963,000.

John W. Rogers fund positions as of Q4/2011 with actual share movements:

Sym - Stock	Portfolio Weight	Recent activity	Reported Price*
CBS - CBS Corp.	4.5	Reduce 16.38%	$27.14
VIA.B - Viacom Inc.	4.45	0	$45.41
AFL - AFLAC Inc.	4.29	0	$43.26
IPG - Interpublic Group	4.21	0	$9.73
DELL - Dell Inc.	3.95	0	$14.63
NTRS - Northern Trust Corp.	3.86	0	$39.66
LAZ - Lazard Ltd.	3.73	Add 5.48%	$26.11
MHK - Mohawk Industries	3.45	Reduce 7.72%	$59.85
JLL - Jones Lang Lasalle Inc.	3.29	0	$61.26
CCL - Carnival Corp.	3.25	0	$32.64
OMC - Omnicom Group	3.25	Reduce 5.43%	$44.58
BEN - Franklin Resources	3.11	Add 9.55%	$96.06
CHK - Chesapeake Energy	2.84	Add 21.89%	$22.29
FAF - First Amer'n Corp.	2.8	Add 28.36%	$12.67
ZMH - Zimmer Holdings	2.79	Reduce 24.14%	$53.42
TMO - Thermo Fisher Scientific	2.79	0	$44.97
JNS - Janus Capital Group	2.78	Add 21.39%	$6.31
IGT - International Game Technology	2.72	Reduce 6.87%	$17.20
STJ - St Jude Medical	2.67	Add 22.50%	$34.30
GCI - Gannett Co.	2.54	Reduce 26.06%	$13.37
SJM - Smucker (J.M.)	2.43	Reduce 10.64%	$78.17
SWK - Stanley Black & Decker Inc.	2.4	0	$67.60
BX - The Blackstone Group	2.4	Add 60.47%	$14.01
KKR - KKR & Co. L.P.	2.33	Add 65.00%	$12.83
ACN - Accenture	2.32	Reduce 17.15%	$53.23
DV - DeVRY Inc.	2.19	Add 57.19%	$38.46
MSG - Madison Square Garden Inc.	2.18	0	$28.64
ITW - Illinois Tool Works	2.03	0	$46.71
CBG - CBRE Group	2.03	0	$15.22
CYN - City National Corp.	1.81	Reduce 7.61%	$44.18
TROW - T. Rowe Price Group	1.6	Reduce 23.90%	$56.95
BIO - Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc.	1.56	0	$96.04
JWN - Nordstrom	1.5	Reduce 27.00%	$49.71
HSP - Hospira Inc.	1.44	Add 21.60%	$30.37
BID - Sotheby's	1.43	Add 50.33%	$28.53
NWL - Newell Rubbermaid Co.	1.41	0	$16.15
BAX - Baxter International Inc.	0.99	Reduce 58.18%	$49.48
MAT - Mattel Inc.	0.7	Reduce 45.23%	$27.76

Related Stock Ticker:

CBS, VIA.B, AFL, IPG, DELL, NTRS, LAZ, MHK, JLL, CCL, OMC, BEN, CHK, FAF, ZHM, TMO, JNS, IGT, STJ, GCI, SJM, SWK, BX, KKR, CAN, DV, MSG, ITW, CBG, CYN, TROW, BIO, JWN, HSP, BID, NWL, BAX, MAT