Top 10 S&P 500 Companies By Dividend Growth

Dividend growth is better than dividend yield because over the long-term, each investor could receive a higher return due to the growing business of a corporate.

Today I like to show you those stocks from the popular S&P 500 that have the fastest twelve trailing months dividend growth.

The screen excludes companies with current dividend yield of less than 2%. The growth rate methodology is based on trailing twelve-month DPS compared to the value one year ago.

You may also like my older articles about dividend growth stocks with solid yields and growth persectives.

These are the results, sorted by dividend growth....

5 Latest Dividend Stock Purchases From Carl Icahn And His Full Portfolio

Carl Icahn’s asset allocation strategy orignially published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Some of you might have heard about Carl Icahn, the Jewish investor. Icahn manages around $21.5 billion in his asset management vehicle Ichan Capital Management.

Within the past, Icahn had proved a very good taste in investing. With only 19 shares, he is also a much undiversified guy and focused on stocks he really knows. In the past I’ve described his latest Q1 stock purchases.

Today, I would like to show you the latest stock moves from Carl Icahn of the second quarter. 

In Q2, Carl hit the button for 16 trades and purchased only seven stocks of which one was a completely new stake in his portfolio. Five of his stock acquisitions pay dividends. You can find a detailed list about these stocks below. The biggest moves were reasonable to Dell, CVR Refining as well as Nuance Communications.

Icahn loves cheap stocks and he is also a noisy guy like most of the activists. The average forward P/E of his latest acquisitions is only at 13.83 and earnings are expected to grow by 10.32 percent for the next five years.

Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of August 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend stocks with great looking fundamentals and cheap price ratios can promise you a good return but they are also very rare and hard to find in my view. The higher your 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

Twelve companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria and ten of them have a current buy or better rating. One stock has a high yield (5 percent dividend yield or more). 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 if the business model is stable.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 21, 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, 94 stocks go ex dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.09%. 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
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.76B	30.58	2.05	2.13	5.03%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.75B	10.16	1.07	1.80	4.81%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	203.07B	13.25	1.17	3.84	3.65%
Prudential plc	PUK	47.13B	18.40	3.15	0.56	3.38%
Intercontinental Hotels Group plc	IHG	10.20B	15.93	33.08	5.56	2.83%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.81B	18.60	1.19	1.81	2.79%
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers	RBA	2.04B	27.70	3.08	4.64	2.72%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.17B	19.50	1.25	1.90	2.66%
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.69B	16.68	9.44	4.25	2.57%
3M Co.	MMM	79.56B	18.12	4.45	2.63	2.20%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.18B	29.56	19.03	3.10	2.05%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.06B	22.71	-	1.61	2.03%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.59B	17.14	2.97	1.85	1.58%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.52B	25.77	3.59	3.33	1.42%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	4.97B	21.40	7.17	2.12	1.42%
Primerica, Inc.	PRI	2.17B	13.88	1.90	1.77	1.14%

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap 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 day.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 19 - 25, 2013. In total, 95 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.93%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.88B	16.87	9.55	4.29	5.40%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.92B	10.26	1.08	1.82	4.77%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.96B	13.37	1.18	3.87	3.61%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	251.10B	19.86	3.61	3.59	2.95%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	10.16B	15.87	32.96	5.54	2.84%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.39B	19.19	1.76	3.28	2.81%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.30B	18.92	1.22	1.85	2.74%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.64B	19.81	1.27	1.93	2.62%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.73	2.49	2.56%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.04B	16.10	2.67	0.60	2.51%
Marathon Petroleum	MPC	22.54B	7.11	1.88	0.25	2.40%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.16B	8.41	2.06	1.11	2.31%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.29B	24.75	3.33	2.63	2.29%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.43	1.28	1.48	2.22%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.70B	20.36	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.31B	29.74	19.15	3.12	2.04%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.07B	22.72	-	1.61	2.03%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%