13 Fastest Growing Restaurant Dividend Stocks By EPS

13 Fastest Growing Restaurant Dividend Stocks By EPS originally appeard on long-term-investments. American's restaurant operators are very competitive and offer real values for dividend investors.

Some stocks from the sector hit recently All-Time highs and they are steadily growing.

Today I would like to highlight some of the best dividend paying growth picks from the restaurant industry.

Below I've highlighted those stocks with the highest expected EPS growth for the next five years. 

Here are the 5 Top results in detail and eight summarized in a table below...

19 International Dividend Achievers With Double-Digit Earnings Growth Forecasts

International Dividend Achievers stock list with high predicted earnings per share growth for the mid-term originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth investors like you or me should always have a focus on stocks from abroad. It diversifies your portfolio and gives you more opportunities from different countries.

But you always have a currency risk if you stock is traded in a foreign currency. But you also own these risks with U.S. stocks that have a huge share of foreign sales. The corporate manages these risks for you.
Today I would like to discover my International Dividend Achievers list by stocks with the highest earnings per share growth forecast for the mid-term (5 Years). You can find a list attached about those stocks with double-digit earnings predictions by brokerage firms.

Only 19 of 55 dividend growth stocks from abroad with a dividend growth history of more than 5 consecutive years fulfilled my restrictions. Six of them still have a low forward P/E of less than 15 and eleven got a current buy or better rating. The yields are low in this environment thanks to Ben Bernanke who said that the tapering must wait until the economy improves stronger. The highest yielding stock from the list has a 3.45 percent yield.

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%

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 21, 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 21, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Solar Senior Capital Ltd	SUNS	222.72M	17.28	1.06	10.56	7.29%
Tortoise Energy Capital Corp.	TYY	686.81M	10.42	-	185.62	4.88%
Avista Corp.	AVA	1.74B	21.09	1.36	1.11	4.19%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.65B	30.21	3.12	16.98	3.92%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.61B	17.25	1.71	2.20	3.77%
CA Technologies	CA	12.55B	13.38	2.28	2.70	3.61%
Southside Bancshares Inc.	SBSI	392.30M	12.02	1.53	3.56	3.46%
Mattel Inc.	MAT	16.16B	20.52	5.30	2.49	3.08%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	17.95B	748.00	2.51	2.22	2.67%
Silver Wheaton Corp.	SLW	7.72B	13.52	2.39	9.02	2.57%
NVIDIA Corporation	NVDA	9.19B	15.99	1.90	2.13	2.02%
Tessera Technologies Inc.	TSRA	1.08B	-	1.79	4.94	1.96%
Tim Hortons Inc.	THI	8.62B	22.42	6.81	2.84	1.83%
NICE Systems Ltd.	NICE	2.21B	29.07	1.84	2.47	1.75%
Spartan Motors Inc.	SPAR	198.86M	-	1.13	0.42	1.72%
China Unicom (Hong Kong)	CHU	35.05B	27.52	1.02	0.83	1.14%
Forward Air Corp.	FWRD	1.17B	21.74	2.99	1.99	1.03%
First Trust Multi-Asset Div Income	MDIV	-	-	-	-	0.65%
Zions Bancorp.	ZION	5.05B	20.75	0.79	2.52	0.58%