20 Highest Yielding NASDAQ And NYSE Dividend Achievers

There are numerous studies suggesting that dividend-paying stocks are effective tools for accumulating wealth over an extended time horizon.

Simply investing in dividend-paying stocks, however, hardly limits the investable universe or indicates a realistic strategy. 

More than two-thirds of the stocks in the S&P 500 pay dividends, including the majority of the larger companies in the benchmark. 

Globally, there are thousands of dividend-paying stocks. There are a number of strategies that further refine the idea of dividend investing, focusing only on dividend payers that meet certain yield, consistency, or balance sheet criteria. 

The good thing for us normal investors is that we can easily discover some the most popular indices with focus on long term dividend growth in order to select high-quality dividend stocks. 

Today I like to show you some of the 20 highest yielding stocks from the NASDAQ and NYSE Dividend Achievers Index. The strategy is ideal for high-income investors who don't want to invest into junk.

The NASDAQ US Dividend Achievers Select Index includes dividend-paying stocks that meet the following requirements:

- Be incorporated in the United States.
- Trade on the NYSE or NASDAQ.
- Have increased its annual dividend for the last ten or more consecutive years.
- Meet volume requirements.
- The NASDAQ OMX maintains the NASDAQ US Dividend Achievers Select Index.

These are 20 highest yielding, selected Dividend Achievers, sorted by Dividend Yield...

13 Dividend Champions That Have Achieved The Highest 10-Year Dividend Growth Rates

Dividend growth investing is sustainable when derived from consistent earnings growth. In its true form, successful dividend growth investing is characterized by instances where annual earnings and dividend growth are almost identical.

In addition, companies that exhibit such traits tend to have their current yields being in the same range of 2% – 3% during prolonged periods of time.

Ordinary yield-chasing investors tend to ignore such companies because they lack the patience or foresight to care for high future yields on cost or strong total returns.

As a result, many of these companies offer low current yields, which tend to stay low for extended periods of time. The lucky investors who purchased such securities however are able to generate high yields on cost over time.

Below, I've selected the 13 dividend champions that have achieved the highest 10-year dividend growth rates.

Here are the results...

These 24 Stocks Growing Dividends By More Than 10% Over A Decade

Recently, I wrote that dividend growth is very important for long-term orientated investors who don't like to trade stocks and follow a buy and hold strategy. I've created a screen to that article, showing the fastest dividend growers from the S&P 500.

Today I like to show you a screen with high quality stocks which have raised dividends over more than 25 years at rates over 10% yearly for a decade. In total, 24 stocks appear on my radar.

Which stocks do you like?

These are my 5 top results...

3 Unbelievable Dividend Champions With Zero Debt And Promising Payout Growth

Investors should be careful while investing in stocks under different sectors. You might be tempted to invest in stocks that pay out high dividends, but what you also need to check is whether these companies have any debts or not.

If a company has huge debts, you must strictly stay away from it, however high its dividends are. Such companies cannot be trusted upon to pay out high dividends in the future as the cash flow that they generate would be used for settling debts.

A company that pays out a reasonable rate of dividend and has very little debts is still a better choice. However the best choice would be a company with absolutely no debt at all. Are there any companies like these? If yes, which ones are best in terms of growth?

Today I show you the fastest growing Dividend Champions with zero debt. Those stocks have a double-digit earnings growth forecast for the next five years as well as a low debt to equity ratio of less than 0.1.

Here are the results...

Dividend Champions With Over 15% Earnings Growth

Some people say that growth can justify each price. That might be truth but means also that most the risk is assigned to the investor.

When Twitter and Facebook have valuation multiples of over 50x of the expected earnings, you have to fear of downside when the growth does not come.

I love investing on classical fundamentals like P/E, CAPEX, Free Cash-Flow, net debt ratios and business predictability.

It's only a small idea of my criteria I do check when I discover a company. Let me mention one thing: There is no perfect stock that fulfills all of the essential criteria.

Today I like to show you some of the fastet growing stocks within the Dividend Champions League. Those stocks have risen dividends over more than 25 consecutive years and forecast EPS growth of more than 15%.

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Many smaller capitalized stocks are on the attached list. It's easily to understand that smaller companies can growth faster because of their size in relation to the market potential but when you look at Apple you also may understand that it's only a question of definition. Each company, whoever great it may be, should grow at a high rate.

You also may like my article about 11 oversold dividend stocks of the recent weeks; not uninteresting for anti-cyclic investors.

These are some of the top results in detail...

11 Dividend Achievers With Strong Buy Rating

Are you looking for stocks that are worth to buy? Sure, we all do! Today I like to show you some of the stocks with the highest buy rating within the Dividend Growth space.

I've compiled all Dividend Achievers, stocks that have raised dividends over a period of at least 10 years without a break, and selected them by the highest analyst rating.

Currently, 167 companies (nearly half of the results) have a buy or better rating. Finally, eleven stocks got a strong buy rating. These are my 4 favorite results:

20 Dividend Champs With Highest 10-Year Dividend Growth

If you are a real dividend growth investor, you look more at the pace of the dividend growth than on the yield of the stock.

A stock that is raising dividends very fast will hit the yield of a slow growing high yielder very soon.

I've also predicted in the past that it makes more sense to bet on fast growing stocks that are reasonable priced than on stocks with high yields and decreasing earnings growth.

Today I like to show you some of the 20 stocks from the Dividend Champions list with the fastest dividend growth over the recent decade.

These are the 5 Dividend Champions with fastest 10-Year dividend growth... 

9 Dividend Achievers With A Strong Buy Rating

Analysts often have a good sense about the development of stocks due to their intensive research related to the company.

Not all analysts predict the correct economic development but they do a very good basic desk research and they have conversations with the management teams of the company, so not many people a as good informed as analysts.

Today I've listed all stocks with more than 10 years of consecutive dividend growth (Dividend Achievers) and a strong buy rating. Only nine companies have received the highest buy rating by analysts. Six of them are listed on the technology stock exchange NASDAQ.

Only four firms have a market capitalization over one billion US-Dollar. Keep in mind that those stocks also contain a higher risk for invvestors.

The only 9 Dividend Achievers with a strong buy rating are....

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 08, 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, 22 stocks go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. 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
Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp.	ANH	669.33M	7.73	0.78	3.70	10.34%
AT&T, Inc.	T	181.61B	25.57	2.11	1.42	5.33%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.08B	16.57	2.94	0.70	4.71%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	134.94B	87.22	3.96	1.14	4.50%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.16B	15.50	1.61	0.87	4.01%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	5.90B	-	2.09	7.85	3.98%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	30.83B	18.03	4.52	1.70	3.17%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	54.12B	23.09	4.14	1.53	3.07%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.54B	-	1.86	1.34	2.61%
Ingles Markets Inc.	IMKTA	659.00M	53.37	1.65	0.17	2.42%
OGE Energy Corp.	OGE	7.13B	21.02	2.53	1.97	2.34%
Covidien plc	COV	28.04B	16.80	2.90	2.63	2.12%
Choice Hotels International Inc.	CHH	2.50B	22.43	-	3.52	1.72%
Kadant Inc.	KAI	360.38M	13.00	1.43	1.12	1.55%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.14B	25.92	4.82	2.98	1.53%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	776.42M	24.20	2.32	1.06	1.49%
Barnes Group Inc.	B	1.91B	26.12	1.96	1.64	1.24%
Aetna Inc.	AET	23.67B	13.26	1.76	0.59	1.20%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	19.76B	24.20	5.59	4.74	1.15%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	11.48B	9.39	0.86	0.98	1.11%

20 Dividend Champions With Highest Cash Distribution Growth Rates Over The Short-Run

Dividend Champions with the fastest short-term dividend growth originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A growing dividend is normally a good sign for investors. The corporate shows two characteristics to their owners: Strength and power of a healthy and growing business.

The rate of dividend growth is in this context a great measure to judge the success of a business. A company with a 20 percent dividend growth rate must have a stronger growing underlying business than a corporate with a 3 percent growing dividend. The future looks rosy and the management team is more optimistic to share profits of the company at a high level.

Firms that hike dividends faster than inflation, deliver accelerated growth or maintain growth at a high level, can pass returns to shareholders.

Today I would like to present you the 20 fastest growing dividends from the Dividend Champions list over the short-run. 105 companies are part of the list which is a compilation of stocks with over 25 years of consecutive dividend growth.

And the winners are: Services and industrials. No other sectors have more constituents on the list. It was the best place to be in the past to gain a higher dividend. This is not equal to return or profits.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 08, 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 July 05, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	196.37B	27.83	2.23	1.55	5.05%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	146.19B	127.52	4.39	1.25	4.04%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.61B	16.28	3.21	0.77	3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.21B	14.13	1.61	0.91	3.92%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.48B	-	2.25	8.75	3.62%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.74B	18.00	4.52	1.82	3.11%
CSG International, Inc.	CSGS	748.38M	14.56	2.29	0.99	2.58%
United Microelectronics	UMC	6.11B	15.13	0.88	1.56	2.48%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.60B	33.39	1.54	1.35	2.45%
Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V.	IBA	1.73B	10.29	1.22	0.57	1.67%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.10B	23.34	4.76	2.82	1.58%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	145.10M	10.95	1.52	2.98	1.52%
Gap Inc.	GPS	19.90B	16.69	6.30	1.25	1.40%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	9.99B	8.16	0.67	0.86	1.30%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	838.93M	26.91	2.55	1.15	1.24%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.53B	23.45	5.19	4.17	1.09%
InterDigital, Inc.	IDCC	1.56B	6.48	3.09	2.44	1.05%
FEI Company	FEIC	2.82B	25.97	3.31	3.15	0.66%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.72B	19.11	1.92	1.38	0.45%