77 Top Dividend Growth Stocks | A Full Compilation Of Stocks With Recent Dividend Growth

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”.

77! That’s the number of stocks and funds which raised dividends last week. It’s the highest amount this year and the highest for several months. 

Dividend growth is often a good sign for a healthy business. Corporate leaders like to give money back that they don’t need for their business. They also expect a strong incoming cash flow.

Yesterday, I started to tweet some of those stocks with recent dividend growth via my @DividendSheet account on twitter. You can also follow me there in order get more dividend stock ideas - quick and short informative with current yield and price-earnings figures. I ever try to limit my thoughts but I cover over 50,000 stocks on the world and a few hundreds of them are very good dividend growth investments.

However, 77 stocks and funds raised dividends last week of which 44 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 40.67 percent. Linked is a small list of all companies and funds with some price ratios to compare.

Below the results are 14 High-Yields, stocks with over 5 percent dividend yield. 47 companies have a current buy or better rating.

20 Of The Best Yielding Healthcare Growth Stocks For The Next Years

Healthcare dividend stocks with best yields and big growth perspectives originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

The healthcare sector is one of my favorite sectors behind the consumer goods sector. I love stocks from the medical equipment and appliances industry. Sure they offer a lower dividend but most of the stocks are major diversified in terms of international sales and they have a wonderful growth perspective.

Stocks from the whole healthcare sector have a total market capitalization of USD 66.298 billion. The average stock from the sector has a P/E of 26.63 and yield at 3.32 percent. These are very attractive figures from the earnings perspective. Debt is also high with a long-term debt to equity ratio of 88.63. As a result, the return on equity amounts to 17.61 percent.

Today I like to show you the best yielding healthcare growth opportunities at the market. I screened all healthcare stocks with a positive dividend payment and double-digit earnings per share growth for the next five years.

Nearly 40 companies fulfilled these criteria but some of them pay only very low dividends. Below is a small list of 20 stocks with the highest yield. Eleven of the results have a buy or better rating.

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On December 27, 2012

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 December 27, 2012. In total, 88 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 50 yield more than 13 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	26.93B	13.81	3.61	1.43	4.40%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	33.46B	24.21	1.94	4.01	3.71%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.83B	27.55	1.81	0.70	3.38%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.32B	52.31	2.83	14.70	2.84%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	11.14B	15.13	2.40	2.01	2.54%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	15.99B	54.08	3.12	8.69	2.45%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	60.75B	11.50	1.57	4.71	2.41%
Host Hotels & Resorts Inc.	HST	11.45B	790.00	1.66	2.20	2.28%
Deere & Company	DE	33.40B	11.28	4.93	0.92	2.14%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	14.70B	10.63	2.05	0.89	2.03%
Mondelez International, Inc.	MDLZ	45.62B	13.80	1.24	0.85	2.03%
Stryker Corp.	SYK	21.24B	14.98	2.54	2.49	1.90%
Yamana Gold, Inc.	AUY	12.65B	35.06	1.65	5.56	1.54%
Humana Inc.	HUM	10.78B	9.11	1.24	0.28	1.53%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	14.29B	12.56	2.74	2.08	0.97%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares Between December 24-30, 2012

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 December 24-30, 2012. In total, 145 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.19%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
American Capital Agency Corp.	AGNC	10.64B	10.31	0.94	5.63	16.05%
Canadian Imperial Bank	CM	33.59B	10.42	1.97	2.74	4.57%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	26.98B	13.84	3.62	1.43	4.39%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	141.91B	16.99	-	1.85	4.00%
Xcel Energy Inc.	XEL	13.27B	14.63	1.50	1.31	3.97%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	69.40B	11.08	1.73	3.99	3.94%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	33.47B	24.10	1.95	3.99	3.70%
BT Group plc	BT	30.52B	9.21	33.41	1.02	3.58%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	13.82B	27.54	1.81	0.70	3.38%
Raytheon Co.	RTN	19.54B	10.16	2.16	0.80	3.38%
Sempra Energy	SRE	17.40B	20.44	1.72	1.82	3.34%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	10.86B	17.32	1.40	1.34	3.16%
Dell Inc.	DELL	18.12B	7.10	1.78	0.31	3.07%
Air Products & Chemicals	APD	17.94B	18.12	2.77	1.87	3.04%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.33B	52.36	2.83	14.71	2.84%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	14.28B	13.22	2.30	0.13	2.62%
St. Jude Medical Inc.	STJ	11.17B	15.16	2.41	2.02	2.54%
Boston Properties Inc.	BXP	15.95B	53.93	3.12	8.67	2.46%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	61.07B	11.56	1.58	4.73	2.40%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	14.26B	14.44	2.30	3.53	2.36%

My Best Healthcare Stock Picks For 2013 | Last Year’s Picks Gained 31.55%

Last year at this time, I made a screen of some stocks from the healthcare sector with an interesting market valuation, a great past growth performance as well as good earnings situation. The stocks had a forward P/E of less than 15, a sales growth over the recent five years of more than 10 percent as well as an operating margin over 10 percent. Exactly seven stocks fulfilled these criteria at that time. Today I like to review these picks and try to discover a new list of potential stocks for next year, 2013. 

Over the recent year the Dow Jones Index is up 8.36 percent, the S&P 500 gained 13.82 percent and the NASDAQ is 14.58 percent higher. My seven healthcare picks from last year performed in average 31.55 percent while the healthcare sector summarized a total gain of 25.7 percent. Below is a current screen of the seven picks with performance figures.

Performance Review Of The Healthcare Picks 2012 (Click to enlarge)

The bad news for me is that I don't have invested in one of them. Now I try to make a similar screen with attractive price ratios. The only new restrictions are simple. I allow lower capitalized stocks (over USD 2 billion market capitalization) and introduce a new barrier in terms of earnings growth. I want mid-term (next five years) earnings per share growth of more than 5 percent. Thirteen companies remain.

The Best Healthcare Growth Picks Of The Next Five Years

Healthcare Dividend Stocks With Highest Expected EPS Growth Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I like healthcare companies because the sector is a long-term growth area due to the ongoing aging population. The sector is a 46.1 trillion bet on stronger than expected health diseases with a current dividend yield of 3.20 percent. We know that the sector is very political driven because heath is a question of cost and money. 80 percent of the world’s population cannot finance a solid medical-aid, medical-care ore even an old-care. The best dividend stocks within the sector still come from the major drug manufacturing industry as well as from the medical practitioners industry.

I made a little screen of the best large capitalized stocks with the highest expected earnings per share growth for the next five years. The industry with the biggest earnings forecast is definitely the biotechnology industry, followed by medical appliances and equipment stocks. But those companies pay no dividends. I focused on stocks with a positive yield and a double-digit earnings growth. Finally, fourteen companies remained of which all are currently recommended to buy. The mostly represented companies are from the healthcare plans industry.

The Biggest Ex-Dividend Stocks On September 26, 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 September 26, 2012. In total, 153 stocks and preferred shares go ex-dividend - of which 74 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.78%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria, S.A.	BBVA	44.89B	14.38	0.84	2.35	6.41%
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	CM	32.29B	10.19	1.86	2.64	4.77%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	36.21B	19.25	1.57	0.62	4.24%
TransCanada	TRP	32.35B	22.73	1.86	3.73	3.79%
Sempra Energy	SRE	15.71B	17.81	1.59	1.63	3.69%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	12.56B	21.85	1.66	0.62	3.69%
Edison International	EIX	14.98B	-	1.28	1.16	2.83%
Avalonbay Communities	AVB	13.35B	62.91	2.91	13.17	2.82%
ACE Limited	ACE	25.80B	12.89	1.00	1.53	2.58%
Fifth Third Bancorp	FITB	14.39B	10.04	1.05	3.44	2.55%
Illinois Tool Works	ITW	28.42B	15.23	2.82	1.57	2.51%
U.S. Bancorp	USB	64.78B	12.61	1.71	5.03	2.28%
Deere & Company	DE	32.49B	11.05	4.39	0.93	2.22%
Xerox	XRX	10.09B	8.58	0.82	0.45	2.20%
St. Jude Medical	STJ	13.49B	17.06	2.98	2.41	2.14%
Boston Properties	BXP	16.97B	54.91	3.31	9.34	1.95%
Host Hotels & Resorts	HST	11.99B	830.00	1.73	2.33	1.93%
Canadian Pacific Railway Limited	CP	14.48B	21.54	2.84	2.57	1.68%
Stryker	SYK	21.49B	15.48	2.70	2.52	1.50%
Humana	HUM	11.37B	9.34	1.34	0.30	1.48%