These Companies Announced Dividend Increases In The Past Week

One way to identify dividend growth stocks for further analysis is to monitor dividend increases. 

Companies that regularly increase dividends show confidence in future earnings growth potential.

In the past weeks, 18 companies announced dividend increases. The table below presents a summary of these increases. 

Here are the results...

20 High Yielding Stocks With A Low Risk Profile To Consider

I want to talk today to a specific audience: current or soon-to-be retirees who have done a great job of saving for retirement but don't want to see their nest egg disappear as they enjoy their golden years.

The backbone of any retirement portfolio is a collection of solid, dividend-paying stocks. It's all the better if those stocks are relatively low-risk. Here I'm going to look at three different stocks that are as boring as they get. They deal with soup, jellies, and paint, among other things.

But for low-risk investors, boring is good. And so is an uber-safe dividend payout. Attached you will find a couple of stocks from my safe heaven list, which is basicly focussed on large caps with low beta ratios and high dividend payments, all with a low debt leverage.

These are the 20 highest yielding results...

20 MLPs To Get Money From Without Filling K-1

For investing purposes, MLPs and LLCs can be a great way to maximize the amount of cash that can be paid to investors, because these organizational structures don't pay income tax, but pass that burden along to those who are invested in it. The same goes for some trust structures.

In other words, because these entities don't pay corporate taxes, the full burden falls on those receiving income from them. This differs from dividend income paid to shareholders by a typical corporation in that regular dividends are taxed as long-term capital gains, while much of the income paid and shown on a Schedule K-1 can be classified as regular income. That means it's taxed at your effective income-tax rate, which is often much higher than the 15% or 20% long-term capital gains rate for corporate dividends.

In summary, a Schedule K-1 issuing entity may be able to pass more income along to you, the investor, but you may end up giving more of it back in taxes than if you'd received regular dividends from a corporation. It really boils down to your tax rate, and how much more income the LLC, MLP, or trust is able to pay.

In order to have less effort with your portfolio allocation and your investment, you could avoid such stocks with K-1 schedules.

Nevertheless, if you like to invest into stocks with a master limited status, you could look at the following list. Each of the stocks are MLP's with status Partnership "C" corporation. Those companies create a classical 1099 Filling and don't send you K-1's.

Here is the list...enjoy it and share it with your social friends...

13 High-Yield Large Caps From The S&P 500 Stock Index

Despite all the hand-wringing over the beginning of the Federal Reserve interest rate increases, the fact of the matter is they will start small, stay small and happen at a very slow pace. 

In fact, most Wall Street strategists predict that by the end of 2017, the fed funds rate will only be 2% at the very most. It could be even lower if economic growth slows down between now and then. 

With that scenario very likely, solid stocks with a big yield will remain in demand. I screened the S&P 500 index for large cap, blue chip stocks that paid a 5% dividend. 

As of now, 13 stocks pay such a high yield of which 5 have also a low forward P/E and 8 a buy or better rating.

A major worry for many yield-hungry investors is that when the Federal Reserve begins raising the federal funds rate, market prices for any yield-producing investment can come under pressure. 

When interest rates rise, the value of an existing bond or preferred stock must adjust itself lower so it has the same yield as a similarly rated new security.

A good advice from me is to avoid stocks with high debt leverage like REITs. Those stocks are living from an interest margin that could be destroyed.

Here are the large cap high-yields from the S&P 500...

82 Shareholder Friendly Stocks of the Week

Below are the top dividend growth stocks and share buyback companies of the week. On the list are some pretty good yielding stocks. Big names like Starbucks, Emerson Electric or Honeywell.

AIG, Motorola and Royal Caribbean Cruises are the biggest stocks with a fresh buyback announcement during the past week.

Cheap is a question of growth. A faster growing company can be higher valuated. Only 17 of the stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

The 7 Top Dividend Growth Stocks Of the past Week are...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 07, 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 August 07, 2013. In total, 46 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.49%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	126.47B	21.27	12.86	3.13	4.24%
American Electric Power Co.	AEP	22.56B	18.63	1.45	1.49	4.23%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	15.69B	18.21	8.50	3.17	3.91%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	13.81B	17.09	7.41	2.82	3.84%
BT Group plc	BT	40.80B	13.81	43.37	1.49	3.73%
Unilever NV	UN	115.37B	18.92	6.76	1.69	3.44%
Spectra Energy Corp.	SE	24.09B	25.01	2.70	4.71	3.39%
Unilever plc	UL	117.64B	19.29	6.90	1.72	3.38%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	235.21B	12.02	1.58	4.98	2.71%
RPC Inc.	RES	3.20B	16.27	3.48	1.75	2.70%
AVX Corp.	AVX	2.23B	-	1.13	1.58	2.65%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	25.56B	14.92	1.32	3.79	2.53%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	260.02B	15.54	3.70	0.55	2.39%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	55.92B	117.51	0.87	0.83	2.18%
Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.	AHL	2.46B	12.92	0.76	1.05	1.94%
Boeing Co.	BA	81.85B	19.62	10.88	0.99	1.80%
Reinsurance Group of America	RGA	4.98B	10.12	0.85	0.48	1.75%
CONSOL Energy Inc.	CNX	7.15B	57.93	1.78	1.42	1.60%
Alcoa, Inc.	AA	8.56B	80.00	0.67	0.37	1.50%
Rollins Inc.	ROL	3.72B	32.60	9.67	2.87	1.42%

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap 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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 05 - 11, 2013. In total, 120 stocks go ex dividend - of which 42 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.37%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
FirstEnergy Corp.	FE	15.94B	24.13	1.23	1.07	5.77%
Entergy Corporation	ETR	12.14B	10.46	1.32	1.15	4.87%
GlaxoSmithKline plc	GSK	126.76B	21.23	12.86	3.12	4.21%
American Electric Power Co.	AEP	22.65B	18.71	1.46	1.49	4.21%
Reed Elsevier plc	RUK	15.46B	17.81	8.48	3.11	3.97%
Intel Corporation	INTC	115.59B	12.55	2.15	2.21	3.88%
Reed Elsevier NV	ENL	13.75B	17.02	7.37	2.81	3.86%
BT Group plc	BT	40.79B	13.73	43.36	1.48	3.73%
Seagate Technology PLC	STX	15.21B	8.54	4.34	1.06	3.70%
Magellan Midstream Partners LP	MMP	12.59B	27.63	8.33	7.36	3.66%
Unilever NV	UN	115.09B	18.87	6.75	1.69	3.45%
Spectra Energy Corp.	SE	24.08B	24.99	2.69	4.70	3.39%
Unilever plc	UL	117.39B	19.25	6.89	1.72	3.38%
Southern Copper Corp.	SCCO	22.56B	12.47	4.46	3.48	3.00%
Wells Fargo & Company	WFC	236.01B	12.06	1.59	4.99	2.70%
Apple Inc.	AAPL	424.90B	11.55	3.44	2.51	2.64%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	25.57B	14.93	1.32	3.79	2.53%
Wal-Mart Stores Inc.	WMT	259.95B	15.53	3.70	0.55	2.39%
MetLife, Inc.	MET	55.72B	23.96	0.86	0.80	2.17%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	12.29B	24.87	3.98	5.68	2.15%