Despite The Market Sell-Off: Here Are 20 Dividend Stocks At Fresh New 52-Week Highs

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Ticker	Company	P/E	Fwd P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend	Price	Target Price
MTBCP	Medical Transcription Billing, Corp.	-	-	9.89	11.14	9.89%	27.80	-
FRO	Frontline Ltd.	-	16.45	1.65	0.95	9.45%	6.35	5.10
OHI	Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.	79.26	20.24	7.45	1.87	7.99%	33.05	30.78
AM	Antero Midstream Partners LP	24.68	15.82	7.13	4.19	4.88%	34.03	37.79
VZ	Verizon Communications Inc.	15.78	11.45	1.73	4.32	4.44%	54.33	56.58
FE	FirstEnergy Corp.	-	15.3	1.41	2.41	3.78%	38.05	39.47
OGE	OGE Energy Corp.	18.72	17.57	3.27	1.91	3.57%	37.27	37.83
AES	The AES Corporation	34.78	11.3	0.92	2.95	3.52%	14.78	13.75
PEG	Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated	19.3	16.48	2.97	1.94	3.30%	54.53	56.00
WEC	WEC Energy Group, Inc.	20.54	19.64	2.83	2.23	3.21%	68.88	68.50
SJI	South Jersey Industries, Inc.	-	21.08	2.32	2.32	3.11%	36.04	36.29
NXRT	NexPoint Residential Trust, Inc.	12.69	-	4.98	2.96	2.92%	34.23	34.21
CMS	CMS Energy Corporation	20.34	20.08	2.1	3.04	2.84%	50.28	50.53
AEE	Ameren Corporation	20.88	20.26	2.56	2.18	2.78%	65.94	65.03
MRK	Merck & Co., Inc.	48.35	15.18	4.55	5.81	2.73%	70.45	73.92
NWN	Northwest Natural Gas Company	-	28.65	2.83	2.67	2.68%	70.43	58.67
NEE	NextEra Energy, Inc.	13.89	20.64	4.86	2.46	2.57%	172.75	178.94
NJR	New Jersey Resources Corporation	9.33	23.48	1.46	2.85	2.49%	47.03	47.00
OGS	ONE Gas, Inc.	24.77	24.87	2.65	2.19	2.19%	83.97	75.20
TDS	Telephone and Data Systems, Inc.	-	25.8	0.71	0.8	2.00%	32.07	34.33

38 Dividend Growth Utilities With A Solid Finance Basis Or Earnings Growth

If there is one thing every investor can appreciate, it is a growing stream of reliable dividends. With the Federal Reserve aiming to raise rates in December, the rate sensitive stocks have seen some price declines.

One of those rate sensitive sectors is the utility sector. To help investors find some of the best companies in the sector, I began researching those utility stocks with at least 5 straight years of dividend increases. 54 companies are part of the results. That's a huge number which I want to reduce by implementing higher restrictions. More about this method can be read below.

Some investors like to build their dividend growth portfolio with very different strategies. One trick that I have found can help investors stay on track is to mentally consider the costs they will need to pay each month of their life and to set a goal for covering those costs with dividend income.

There is a beautiful irony in being able to cover the costs an investor faces in their life with a dividend check from the same company that is selling them a product. When it comes to the utility companies, it makes sense to have a more diversified portfolio rather than simply owning the utility that covers the investor's primary residence. 

The simple geographic risk of a natural disaster impacting the company and the investor's life at the same time makes it ideal to use a portfolio with at least a few different utility companies, even when the investor wants to use a utility dividend check to pay for their cost.

Utilities are mostly not diversified but you can do it on your own by investing smaller amounts into several sub-industries.

I've created two charts from my dividend growth utility database. The first table lists all utilities with a debt-to-equity ratio below one. I think its also important to have a look at financial ratios, especially when rates go up in the near future.

The second chart gives an overview of dividend growth utilities with a predicted 5% earnings growth for the next five years. It's a more bullish view on future earnings.

Here are the results…

8 Cheap Dividend Growth Stocks With Yields Over 4% And Decent Growth Potential

It’s true that rising bond yields provide more competition for stocks when it comes to luring income investors, and that income stocks tend to lose the most relative appeal.

It’s also true that the Federal Reserve has hinted it could raise its Fed funds rate soon, perhaps by year’s end.

The rate has been targeted at a historic low of 0% to 0.25% since late 2008, and recently hovered around an effective rate of 0.12%. What’s not clear is that a rise in the Fed funds rate would push yields on bonds substantially higher.

Don’t shy away from stocks with high dividend yields because of a looming interest rate hike. Do, however, favor companies with decent growth potential to complement their cash payouts. Below are three that yield over 4%.

Here are the results...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 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 March 07, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.04%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.77B	16.77	1.07	0.94	5.19%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.48B	15.78	1.60	1.55	4.63%
UIL Holdings Corporation	UIL	2.01B	19.64	1.81	1.35	4.36%
Laclede Group Inc.	LG	935.75M	14.75	1.51	0.92	4.10%
TELUS Corporation	TU	22.68B	17.84	2.83	2.10	3.58%
SY Bancorp Inc.	SYBT	316.68M	12.30	1.57	3.64	3.52%
Kaydon Corporation	KDN	787.88M	614.00	2.36	1.67	3.26%
South Jersey Industries, Inc.	SJI	1.77B	16.22	2.49	2.50	3.17%
Principal Financial Group Inc.	PFG	9.51B	12.61	0.98	1.03	2.84%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	SWK	12.55B	29.23	1.98	1.23	2.50%
MTS Systems Corp.	MTSC	852.50M	17.49	3.56	1.55	2.21%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	12.61B	93.92	1.26	1.72	2.21%
Interpublic Group	IPG	5.36B	15.22	2.23	0.77	1.85%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.	GROW	59.79M	96.50	1.60	2.90	1.55%
CBS Corporation	CBS	28.24B	18.10	2.77	2.00	1.07%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.	JJSF	1.34B	22.85	2.77	1.57	0.90%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.64B	30.80	3.76	5.20	0.81%
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	8.92B	30.51	3.91	2.21	0.79%
FedEx Corporation	FDX	33.93B	17.32	2.20	0.78	0.52%

Hottest Dividend Growth Stocks | 20 Best Buy Rated Dividend Achievers

Many people have a strong opinion to the development of stocks. Analysts and brokerage firms are professionals who spread opinions across the financial markets. Sometimes they get paid, sometimes they are long or short and benefit from asset price changes. However, there is still a reason for analyst ratings. I wanted to know what do the professionals think about the best dividend growth stocks and which stocks do they recommend mostly for the time being. In order to find the answer, I run a screen of stocks with more than 10 consecutive years of dividend growth and sorted them by the highest recommendation. As a result, nearly half of the Dividend Achievers have a current buy or better rating. Below is a list of the 20 best buy rated stocks.

The 20 Safest Dividend Growth Stocks – A Summary

Dividend Achievers With Low Beta Ratios Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend growth is an investment strategy that works if you have enough time. At the market are 187 stocks with a consecutive dividend growth of more than five years (Dividend Achievers). I made a list of the 20 dividend growth stocks with the lowest beta ratio, in total a value of less than 0.4. Especially in times of crises like the European debt crisis and the slowing China GDP growth, a safe haven strategy should be a wise decision. The low beta ratio shows that the stock is only low correlated with the market. If he goes 10 percent down, the 0.4 beta stock follows the market only by 4 percent.

Below the 20 results are two High-Yields and five with a buy or better recommendation.

4 Dividend Achievers With The Strongest Recommendation At The Market

Dividend Achievers With Strong Buy Rating Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Achievers stocks are very interesting in terms of wealth construction due to a continuous dividend growth. Such stocks raised dividends over a period of more than 10 consecutive years. At the markets are 187 companies available for trade that fulfilled these dividend growth criteria but not all have a good rating.

I screened the investment category by the highest recommendation rating, a strong buy. Only four companies have such a great recommendation of which one has a yield over three percent. But growth is more important than yield.