17 Best Healthcare Dividend Growth Picks Of The Past 20 Years

The healthcare sector should be an important part of every dividend investor's portfolio. Healthcare spending as a portion of GDP in OECD countries is expected to rise steadily over the coming decades. In East Asia, healthcare spending will also rise relative to GDP, given the steep drop in fertility in that region over the last 20 years.

An aging population is a very long-lived, secular trend, and so many well-positioned healthcare businesses have steady growth prospects as far out as the eye can see. Luckily for income investors, the healthcare sector includes many businesses that are stable, dividend-minded and have good balance sheets.

Today, I like to introduce a few of the best dividend growth stocks from the healthcare sector. You might have some great names in your mind, like Johnson & Johnson or Medtronic.

For me, the medical equipment industry is a great way to invest into the future. Pharmacy is also a great but they are more cyclic and threaten by biotech. Those get also pressure from bio-similars.

There is no guarantee for a good return in the future but I feel confident to own some of the best names in the sector.

These are the best Healthcare dividend growth picks of the past 20 years. Which stocks do you like?

40 Stocks With Dividend Growth (A Compilation Of The Latest Dividend Hikes)

Attached is a full compilation of the latest dividend growers. In total, 40 companies raised their dividend payments. The biggest stocks are AIG, Monsanto and PPL.

Dividend growth is important for income investors but more essential is the sustainability of the payments.

These are the cheapest stocks by forward price to earnings:

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 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.

In total, 18 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.97%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Knightsbridge Tankers Limited	VLCCF	283.07M	-	1.06	13.74	8.58%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	19.13B	12.95	1.31	1.39	4.38%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	14.45B	18.70	4.95	2.22	3.45%
Cinemark Holdings Inc.	CNK	3.56B	28.10	3.35	1.41	2.69%
Schweitzer-Mauduit Intern.	SWM	1.76B	16.43	3.32	2.26	2.12%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.56B	15.85	2.64	1.67	1.93%
Everest Re Group Ltd.	RE	6.76B	7.63	1.02	1.30	1.38%
Blackbaud Inc.	BLKB	1.56B	103.32	10.21	3.24	1.37%
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	6.34B	46.94	2.84	1.44	1.29%
Nielsen Holdings N.V.	NLSN	12.76B	44.01	2.31	2.28	0.24%
PVH Corp.	PVH	10.47B	29.41	2.54	1.60	0.11%
Vulcan Materials Company	VMC	6.47B	-	1.70	2.48	0.08%

Half-Time Report: The Best Healthcare Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are The Cheapest

Healthcare dividend stocks with the highest year-to-date performance originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We’ve completed the month June and it’s time to report which stocks have risen most within the first six months of the year. It’s ever good to see which stocks are hot in the market and which of them are still cheap valuated.

That’s the main reason why I like to produce an article serial with performance figures of the best performing stocks from several sectors of the financial market.

Today I like to screen the healthcare sector by dividend stocks with the highest stock performance since the beginning of the year.

The 20 most successful companies have realized a performance between 22.01 percent and 73.98 percent. The average capital gain was 36.24 percent. Despite the strong stock price hike, seventeen of them still have a buy or better rating.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 31, 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 May 31, 2013. In total, 14 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.85%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
TAL International Group, Inc.	TAL	1.50B	11.08	2.37	2.47	5.96%
Old Republic International Corp.	ORI	3.60B	-	0.97	0.71	5.19%
REGAL ENTERTAINMENT GROUP	RGC	2.89B	23.81	-	1.04	4.52%
NV Energy, Inc.	NVE	4.54B	13.87	1.28	1.54	3.94%
China Mobile Limited	CHL	213.07B	10.23	1.81	2.33	3.89%
Arthur J Gallagher & Co.	AJG	5.64B	26.62	3.39	2.13	3.15%
Suncor Energy Inc.	SU	47.38B	20.81	1.23	1.26	2.51%
China Telecom Corp. Ltd.	CHA	39.36B	16.16	0.91	0.85	2.04%
Interval Leisure Group, Inc.	IILG	1.25B	24.76	4.22	2.59	2.02%
Tidewater Inc.	TDW	2.78B	20.43	1.09	2.31	1.78%
Mainsource Financial Group	MSFG	281.86M	11.82	0.91	2.65	1.74%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.67B	16.81	2.82	1.78	1.66%
Cass Information Systems Inc.	CASS	516.25M	22.02	2.93	11.42	1.60%
Westlake Chemical Corp.	WLK	6.21B	14.81	3.13	1.83	0.81%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On February 25, 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 February 25, 2013. In total, 12 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Medley Capital Corporation	MCC	429.61M	10.78	1.18	7.95	9.61%
Ambassadors Group Inc.	EPAX	79.64M	22.60	0.91	1.36	5.31%
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation	SIX	3.62B	41.90	4.13	3.40	5.30%
Sun Life Financial Inc.	SLF	16.96B	28.86	1.03	0.85	5.13%
Great Plains Energy	GXP	3.38B	16.93	0.99	1.46	3.95%
Sonoco Products Co.	SON	3.18B	17.75	2.09	0.67	3.80%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.75B	29.92	2.02	1.08	2.52%
Steris Corp.	STE	2.25B	13.85	2.45	1.54	1.97%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.	DNB	3.62B	12.54	-	2.18	1.87%
Tower Financial Corporation	TOFC	60.27M	10.47	0.92	2.32	1.78%
Mesa Laboratories Inc.	MLAB	179.85M	21.90	3.58	4.12	1.05%
Griffon Corporation	GFF	686.78M	43.15	1.04	0.37	0.89%