26 Stocks Raised Dividends Over The Past Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth matters and has significant influence to your asset strategy. A higher dividend in the future also lifts your passive income from stock investing. It’s a good method to boost your total return.

Out there are many studies, telling you that nearly half of the average return on the stock market is responsible to dividend payments. That’s a huge number in my view but what if we are trying to find the best dividend stocks, stocks that are better than the average? I think about companies that pay in ten years more dividends to you than you have ever paid for the whole investment.

I strongly believe that this strategy will deliver good returns. The only problem is to discover these growth stocks that are willing to give you huge amounts of money back.

However, one way to get some ideas of the greatest dividend growth stocks is to look at the current lists of dividend growers. On my blog I publish on a regular basis these lists.

Last week, 26 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 25.49 percent.

Five of the results have a high yield of more than five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 16 of the latest dividend growth stocks.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 15, 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 15, 2013. In total, 54 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.86%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
The GEO Group, Inc.	GEO	2.45B	13.13	2.37	1.58	5.79%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	2.92B	55.02	2.37	5.42	4.83%
Tronox Limited	TROX	2.60B	1.54	1.05	1.39	4.36%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.65	1.01	3.27%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	15.14B	11.80	0.40	0.24	3.08%
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional	SID	4.88B	-	1.27	0.58	2.99%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.00B	9.56	0.79	0.95	2.89%
United Parcel Service, Inc.	UPS	82.71B	101.99	22.84	1.52	2.83%
American Water Works	AWK	7.57B	20.69	1.68	2.64	2.63%
L-3 Communications Holdings	LLL	8.39B	11.11	1.50	0.63	2.36%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	2.17B	12.35	4.51	1.41	2.33%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.08B	13.89	1.99	0.49	2.27%
Allison Transmission Holdings	ALSN	4.26B	35.29	2.98	2.19	2.09%
j2 Global, Inc.	JCOM	2.37B	19.86	3.68	5.27	1.84%
Tim Hortons Inc.	THI	9.01B	22.52	7.52	2.95	1.70%
AmerisourceBergen Corporation	ABC	13.43B	22.98	5.55	0.16	1.44%
SemGroup Corporation	SEMG	2.32B	37.58	2.10	1.92	1.39%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	4.72B	20.88	3.03	3.24	1.08%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.50B	29.24	7.43	1.74	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	15.82B	75.99	6.92	10.62	0.11%

Best Dividend Paying Stocks As Of January 2013 | Top 30 Share Buy List

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Happy new year fellow investors. I hope 2013 will become a great year for our asset allocation. 

Let's start the first post for this year with our regular best dividend paying stock list.

The best equity investment is a stock with good fundamentals and a convincing equity story. If this stock is also attractive valuated it could promise good returns. I’ve tried to summarize some significant fundamentals in order to screen the whole capital markets by interesting dividend stocks. 

Every month I create a quick dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion

Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100

Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20

Return on investment: > 10 < 100

Operating Margin: > 10 < 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of November 2012

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is November 01, 2012. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion
Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100

Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20

Return on investment: > 10 < 100

Operating Margin: > 10 < 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

Twenty stocks fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which six stocks are high-yields. The best yielding stock is the mining company Southern Copper (SCCO), which generated a fantastic growth of 26 percent yearly over the recent decade. But growth slows for the time being. Commodity prices are going down and the economy weakens. Compared to the recent results six months before, the number of constitutions falls steadily.

Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of October 2012

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is October 01, 2012. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion
Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100
Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20
Return on investment: > 10 < 100
Operating Margin: > 10 < 100
10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200
10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of September 2012

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is September 01, 2012. The list of best paying stocks is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion

Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100

Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20

Return on investment: > 10 < 100

Operating Margin: > 10 < 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of August 2012

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is August 01, 2012. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion

Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100

Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20

Return on investment: > 10 < 100

Operating Margin: > 10 < 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of July 2012

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is July 02, 2012. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion

Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100

Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20

Return on investment: > 10 < 100

Operating Margin: > 10 < 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

Here are my most promising stocks from the list:

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Garmin (NASDAQ:GRMN) has a market capitalization of $7.46 billion. The company employs 9,229 people, generates revenues of $2,758.57 million and has a net income of $520.90 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $641.60 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 23.26 percent (operating margin 20.07 percent and the net profit margin finally 18.88 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 16.52 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.63. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.60 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.58, P/S ratio 2.89 and P/B ratio 2.29. Dividend Yield: 4.70 percent. The beta ratio is 1.34.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Garmin Ltd. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Garmin Ltd. (GRMN) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ: GRMN) (Click to enlarge)

Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) has a market capitalization of $208.12 billion. The company employs 61,000 people, generates revenues of $253,706.00 million and has a net income of $27,008.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $60,545.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 23.86 percent (operating margin 18.78 percent and the net profit margin finally 10.65 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 4.85 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 8.36 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.75 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $13.61. Last fiscal year, the company paid $3.09 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 7.75, P/S ratio 0.82 and P/B ratio 1.72. Dividend Yield: 3.41 percent. The beta ratio is 0.79.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Chevron Corporation (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Chevron Corporation (CVX) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) (Click to enlarge)

PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) has a market capitalization of $110.51 billion. The company employs 297,000 people, generates revenues of $66,504.00 million and has a net income of $6,462.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $12,242.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 18.41 percent (operating margin 14.48 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.72 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 36.73 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 130.04 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 30.66 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.03. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.02 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.53, P/S ratio 1.66 and P/B ratio 5.34. Dividend Yield: 3.04 percent. The beta ratio is 0.47.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of PepsiCo, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the cheapest dividend growth stocks. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.46 while the dividend yield has a value of 4.83 percent. Price to book ratio is 3.90 and price to sales ratio 2.65. The operating margin amounts to 30.38 percent. Earnings per share grew by 19.44 yearly over the past decade.


Here is the full table:

Best Dividend Paying Stock List (Click to enlarge)

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18 High Yield Stocks At New 52-Week Lows

New Breakout Stocks By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Sometimes it makes sense to observe stocks with an ongoing sell-offs. The background is to find stocks with a possible turnaround story. Stocks which are oversold and pushed to new lows could recover in a fast way. If the company pays stable dividends, it should increase the expected total return. However, here is a current screen of high yield stocks that have marked new 52-Week Lows within the recent days. All stocks have a yield of more than 5 percent. As a result, 18 high yield stocks are near to their new 52-week low of which 11 have a double-digit dividend yield.

The Best Yielding Large Cap Basic Material Stocks

Large Capitalized Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Yield Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. It’s very important to know what yields are traded within a sector or industry in order to compare risks and premiums. I made a screen of the best yielding large capitalized basic material stocks. 88 companies from the sector have a market capitalization over USD 10 billion and 81 of them pay dividends. Below, I listed all stocks with a yield over 4 percent.

The best represented industry is the major integrated oil and gas industry with nine companies. 11 stocks from the results are high yields and seven are recommended to buy.

The Best Dividends On May 09, 2012

Here is a current overview of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading day. If your broker settles your trade today, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 09, 2012. In total, 53 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 25 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69 percent.

The Best Dividends Between May 07-13, 2012

Here is a current overview of the best yielding stocks with a market capitalization over USD 10 billion that have their ex-dividend date on the next trading week. If your broker settles your trade before the ex-date, you will receive the next dividend. A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks May 07-13, 2012. In total, 238 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend of which 107 yielding above 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.86 percent.

16 Cheapest High Yield Large Cap Stocks - An Overview

The Cheapest Large Capitalized Stocks With Highest Dividend Yield Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Now it’s time to get an updated overview of the cheapest high yield stocks from the large cap category. Three criteria are selected: Market capitalization over USD 10 billion, forward price-to-earnings ratio below 10 and dividend yield over five percent. Sixteen stocks fulfilled these criteria of which five have a double digit yield; eleven are recommended to buy or they have a strong buy rating.

Best Yielding BRIC Stocks For Your Global Diversification

Best Dividend Yielding BRIC Dividend Shares For Your International Diversification by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. For investors, it is important to have investments in different sectors, industries and currencies. Some big home companies like Procter and Gamble (PG) or General Electric are well diversified and fulfill these criteria. But these companies also have a weakness: They generate only little revenues in emerging markets. In order to eliminate this deficit, investors could buy stocks direct from these regions.

I screened the market by stocks with home base in one of the well known BRIC countries - Brazil, Russia, India and China. These huge countries will benefit mostly fom the globalization. However, 289 stocks with home base in a BRIC country are listed on America’s stock exchanges. I decided to discover those stocks with a market capitalization of more than $10 billion (large capitalized stocks) as well as stocks with a dividend yield of more than 2 percent. 11 stocks meet these criteria; most came from China and Brazil.