These Dividend Contenders May Rise Dividends Within The Next 3 Months

Recently, I wrote about DividendChampions that may rise dividends within the next 3 months in order to keep their status as dividend grower alive.

It's fantstic to know what companies should hike it's dividends because the current yields are so low that each investor get tears in his eyes.

A potential dividend hike could lift the current dividend yield on a new level.

Today I like to introduce some Dividend Contenders with potential to hike dividends over the next quarter. As a result, I found 20 companies; nine of them yield over 3 percent.

Dividend Growth is a wonderful investing space on which I personally spend a lot of time. 

I love it to see dividends grow but it's only possible if a company grows and has low debt ratios.

These are my 6 highlights... 

23 Stocks With Expected Dividend Growth Over The Next 3 Months

Consecutive dividend growth measures the number of years in which the corporate has increased dividends. Everything that a company needs to do is to hike dividends each 12 months or less.

Today I will highlight some special stocks that must increase dividends within the next 3 months in order to keep its dividend grower status alive. 23 companies are on the attached list of which 12 are recommended to buy. The bad thing is that only 4 have a really attractive forward looking P/E ratio of less than 15. The market is still expensive!

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 12, 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, 192 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 95 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.02%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Ares Capital Corporation	ARCC	4.72B	8.33	1.09	5.87	8.57%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	70.03B	15.97	19.65	2.88	5.49%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.62B	14.49	3.10	1.74	5.12%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	8.34B	15.80	2.48	3.12	4.22%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.54B	-	1.78	7.45	4.07%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.61B	16.47	1.54	1.25	3.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	4.82B	33.60	3.15	10.27	3.69%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.91B	16.58	1.37	1.80	3.59%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	144.42B	28.56	3.04	3.22	3.58%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.12B	21.25	4.56	4.33	3.47%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.09B	15.25	3.95	1.51	3.41%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	18.12B	-	1.32	9.46	3.00%
UGI Corp.	UGI	4.44B	16.32	1.78	0.63	2.91%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	171.75B	20.44	5.33	3.61	2.90%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.41B	46.12	-	5.80	2.89%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.26B	23.73	1.68	2.72	2.84%
Owens & Minor Inc.	OMI	2.18B	21.10	2.21	0.24	2.76%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.31B	11.75	11.11	1.86	2.69%
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.	FNF	5.60B	9.21	1.28	0.65	2.57%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	2.17B	16.19	0.80	0.95	2.52%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 29, 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.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 29, 2013. In total, 110 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 37 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.06%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.63B	10.70	1.01	5.13	12.21%
TransAlta Corp.	TAC	3.89B	-	1.32	1.87	7.68%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	4.78B	21.54	3.85	5.11	6.68%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.66B	22.89	1.83	8.10	5.59%
Lorillard, Inc.	LO	16.58B	14.11	-	2.48	5.01%
Vermilion Energy Inc.	VET	5.13B	27.99	3.43	4.88	4.66%
Integrys Energy Group, Inc.	TEG	4.69B	12.54	1.44	1.01	4.59%
Brookfield Infrastructure Partners	BIP	8.04B	85.07	1.53	4.01	4.49%
Barrick Gold Corporation	ABX	19.18B	-	0.85	1.34	4.18%
Piedmont Office Realty Trust	PDM	3.37B	71.82	1.29	8.25	3.98%
Brookfield Office Properties Canada	BOXC	2.62B	-	3.04	4.95	3.89%
Bank of Hawaii Corporation	BOH	2.30B	14.57	2.24	5.61	3.51%
Northeast Utilities	NU	13.48B	20.60	1.42	1.88	3.43%
Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.	CFR	3.86B	17.11	1.58	6.09	3.11%
Brookfield Properties Corporation	BPO	9.15B	8.55	0.79	3.88	3.09%
Perusahaan Perseroan	TLK	25.07B	18.16	4.16	3.18	3.06%
Harris Corp.	HRS	5.52B	10.79	3.29	1.06	2.94%
AVX Corp.	AVX	2.03B	-	1.03	1.43	2.91%
Time Warner Cable Inc.	TWC	27.65B	3.80	4.01	1.02	2.74%
Corning Inc.	GLW	23.10B	13.27	1.08	2.92	2.55%