24 Stocks With Higher Dividend Payments (Announced Within The Past Week)

24 stocks announced a growing dividend in the past week. The biggest names were Illinois Tool Works, Expedia, Hershey and Broadridge Financial Solutions.

Big is beautiful but to pay a high price for growth or more safety is also irrational. In terms of cheapness, measured by forward P/E's are Avnet, State National and Ares Management the top picks.

Asset managers become the latest stocks on my cheap dividend plays but the industry also faces a strong headwind of out flooding money. How it will end in the mid-term is a question of believe. I do think that AUM will growth in the future but there is still a high sensibility to financial crisis and depressions.

However, let's face the facts. These are the latest dividend growers. Attached is also a list of the 20 biggest stocks with dividend growth in the past week. Which do you like?

These are the latest dividend growers....

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On February 05, 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 February 05, 2013. In total, 24 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.45%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Mid-Con Energy Partners	MCEP	432.10M	18.36	7.57	7.89	8.84%
Martin Midstream Partners	MMLP	913.16M	34.61	1.97	0.72	8.81%
Summit Midstream Partners	SMLP	1.07B	39.76	0.41	6.83	7.50%
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	7.82B	-	2.19	5.91	7.41%
Linn Co, LLC	LNCO	1.40B	-	-	-	7.08%
Atlas Pipeline Partners LP	APL	2.17B	33.66	1.46	1.79	6.82%
Inergy Midstream LLC	NRGM	1.78B	40.81	3.21	9.37	6.51%
Rentech Nitrogen Partners, L.P.	RNF	1.86B	22.48	17.48	9.59	6.26%
Inergy, L.P.	NRGY	2.66B	4.82	2.55	1.33	5.73%
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	16.93B	16.00	1.26	1.05	5.43%
Intel Corporation	INTC	106.26B	10.03	2.08	1.99	4.21%
CVR Partners, LP	UAN	1.98B	14.38	4.27	6.16	2.83%
ADTRAN Inc.	ADTN	1.27B	27.32	1.83	2.04	1.78%
The Mosaic Company	MOS	26.44B	14.41	2.02	2.63	1.61%
Starbucks Corporation	SBUX	42.61B	30.57	8.34	3.12	1.48%
Apogee Enterprises, Inc.	APOG	708.30M	40.77	2.14	1.03	1.45%
Peabody Energy Corp.	BTU	6.73B	-	1.36	0.83	1.36%
Wintrust Financial Corporation	WTFC	1.37B	16.20	0.76	2.19	0.97%
HB Fuller Co.	FUL	1.99B	29.78	2.56	1.06	0.85%
KB Home	KBH	1.53B	-	4.33	0.98	0.54%

13 Of The Best Dividend Paying High Yields

Best Dividend Paying High Yields Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. High Yields are stocks with a dividend yield of more than five percent. 857 listed companies have such a high yield but not all of them have a sustainable dividend and pay the best dividends at the market.

In order to find the best dividend paying growth stocks from the investment class High Yield stocks, I screened all companies with a five percent dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 10 percent and an operating margin over 15 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.5. Thirteen High Yields remained of which nine are currently recommended to buy. The best recommended stock is City Telecom HK (CTEL) with a yield of 16.47 percent and a strong buy rating.

18 Best Dividend Paying Basic Material Stocks (High Growth With Low Debt)

Best Dividend Paying Basic Material Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The basic material sector is a great investment field with fantastic growth potential if the economy starts to recover. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 210.91 trillion and summarizes 604 companies. The average dividend yield amounts to 3.23 percent and the P/E ratio is 13.51.

In order to find the best dividend paying stocks within the sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than 15 percent and an operating margin over 20 percent. To get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.4. Eighteen basic material companies remained of which three yielding over three percent and sixteen are currently recommended to buy.

15 Stocks With Double-Digit Yields And Double-Digit Growth

Best Growing Stocks With Double-Digit Yields Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Stocks with very high yields (over ten percent) are very good for investors with small money and high need for dividend income. The risks for dividend cuts are also very high within this investment class. One important item for a stable dividend is the income growth over the mid-term.

I screened stocks with double-digit yields and growth rates of more than 10 percent in earnings per share for the upcoming five years. Fifteen stocks remained of which nine are currently recommended to buy.