24 Stocks With Fresh Dividend Hikes

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 24 companies increased its dividends within the recent week. Compared to 15 stocks from the previous week, it’s a small improvement but not the big numbers of 50 or more. The average dividend growth amounts to 32.07 percent.

Several recent dividend growth stocks have a market capitalization over $10 billion. Those are big names like McDonald’s, or Microsoft. The technology and software giant also announced to buy back $40 billion in own shares. That’s around 14 percent of the current market value.

I’ve attached a list for you of all dividend growers from the past week. You can also find there a list of the current valuations of the stocks. Half of the results still have a low forward P/E below 15 and eleven received a buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 26, 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 April 26, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.46%.

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	2.47B	7.87	1.01	5.06	12.07%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.60B	24.77	1.78	8.07	5.69%
Chatham Lodging Trust	CLDT	321.71M	-	1.24	3.20	4.59%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	56.16B	22.74	4.24	1.32	4.35%
Northwest Natural Gas Company	NWN	1.22B	20.34	1.66	1.67	4.03%
Brookfield Office Properties Canada	BOXC	2.56B	-	3.00	4.88	3.96%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.81B	17.88	1.74	1.88	3.59%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	39.78B	23.85	3.64	3.10	3.11%
NiSource Inc.	NI	9.71B	22.40	1.74	1.92	3.08%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	14.79B	28.16	2.94	1.03	2.82%
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers	SKT	3.50B	66.12	7.22	9.79	2.43%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	4.72B	23.06	8.20	3.83	2.04%
Scholastic Corporation	SCHL	849.50M	12.50	1.00	0.43	1.88%
ASML Holding NV	ASML	30.18B	19.35	4.24	5.29	0.82%