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....

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 11, 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, 258 stocks go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.49%. 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
Valley National Bancorp	VLY	2.04B	14.45	1.34	3.22	6.34%
Digital Realty Trust Inc.	DLR	6.76B	36.58	2.37	4.78	5.92%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	3.06B	3.25	1.59	10.81	4.73%
Leggett & Platt	LEG	4.41B	17.58	3.09	1.18	3.97%
Validus Holdings, Ltd.	VR	3.65B	10.53	1.01	1.73	3.39%
Domtar Corporation	UFS	2.20B	28.60	0.83	0.41	3.34%
BRE Properties Inc.	BRE	3.88B	43.05	2.28	9.67	3.14%
Packaging Corp. of America	PKG	5.24B	23.44	4.99	1.74	2.94%
GATX Corp.	GMT	2.19B	15.33	1.80	1.72	2.63%
The Hanover Insurance Group	THG	2.23B	21.95	0.89	0.47	2.60%
XL Group plc	XL	8.75B	10.35	0.88	1.17	1.85%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.72B	24.30	4.78	1.55	1.82%
Worthington Industries, Inc.	WOR	2.36B	17.60	2.84	0.90	1.79%
First Horizon National	FHN	2.71B	18.54	1.26	3.53	1.77%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.10B	17.13	0.87	1.67	1.70%
URS Corporation	URS	3.74B	11.92	1.04	0.32	1.66%
Comerica Incorporated	CMA	7.55B	15.01	1.09	4.18	1.65%
Albemarle Corp.	ALB	5.23B	17.52	3.86	1.99	1.54%
Service Corp. International	SCI	3.87B	25.03	2.76	1.56	1.53%
Alcoa, Inc.	AA	8.64B	80.80	0.68	0.37	1.49%

51 Shares With A Rising Dividend, Announced Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I’ve created a screen for my dividend yield hunters about the stocks with a dividend hike from last week. The list shows a full compilation of all dividend growers of the recent week. 51 companies are on the list and eleven of them have a high yield; 35 are currently recommended to buy.

The average growth slows a bit and hits some of the lowest levels this year. The average dividend growth last week was at 16.65 percent.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On October 11, 2012

The Best And Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. 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-dividend date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on October 11, 2012. In total, 38 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 19 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.44%.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized Ex-Dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.27B	28.00	1.05	27.09	14.29%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	9.17B	12.08	2.42	1.81	4.58%
SAIC, Inc.	SAI	3.86B	-	1.64	0.35	4.25%
Mid-America Apartment Communities Inc.	MAA	2.62B	49.84	3.11	5.47	4.14%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	2.68B	27.52	2.95	0.84	3.20%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.	FCX	38.61B	12.25	2.33	2.09	3.07%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	111.27B	22.94	4.54	2.82	2.88%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.10B	-	2.26	6.57	2.28%
Phillips 66	PSX	28.89B	6.00	1.53	0.15	2.17%
Jefferies Group, Inc.	JEF	2.88B	12.55	0.95	0.78	2.12%
American Financial Group Inc.	AFG	3.57B	9.06	0.78	0.73	2.05%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.	POT	35.79B	14.46	4.08	4.30	2.02%
IDEX Corporation	IEX	3.38B	16.80	2.14	1.74	1.98%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.14B	13.65	5.17	1.96	1.79%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	13.04B	6.44	0.74	1.04	1.79%
Service Corp. International	SCI	2.91B	18.52	2.14	1.23	1.78%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	2.51B	12.28	1.31	0.68	1.38%
Investors Bancorp Inc.	ISBC	2.07B	23.73	2.02	4.27	1.08%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.97B	13.85	2.19	1.88	0.43%