28 Latest Dividend Growth Stocks Compiled In One List

When you purchase individual stocks, risk is inherent. Sometimes bad things happen to good stocks. Eventually, every investor will hold a stock that falls out of favor and endures a double-digit decline. Understanding this from the onset makes it easier to deal with. To minimize the risk of significant declines, your core portfolio should focus on blue-chip dividend growth stocks.

Listed below are companies that have recently elected to raise their payout and yield by increasing their cash dividends to shareholders. In total, there were 28 companies with higher dividend payments.

Each month, I’ll be sharing with you, for free, the top dividend growth stocks for the US market. You can find them in the list below:

13 Unleveraged Dividend Challengers With Yields Over 2% | Dividend Income Growth

Dividend Challengers with very low debt to equity ratios and great initial dividend yields originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

If you read my blog for a longer time you should have noticed that dividend growth is one of the most important wealth drivers for long-term dividend investors.

I also talked about the difference between high dividend yields at a low growth and low yielding stocks with a high dividend growth.

The answer of this question is a between solution: Look at good initial yields with growing dividends over the longer period. I talk about mentionable yields and growth rates above the inflation level.

Today I would like to combine both, good growth with an acceptable initial dividend yield. In addition I love it to find stocks with low or no long-term debt. This increases the chance for further big dividend hikes or an accelerated growth.

Only a low leveraged company has more flexibility to grow sales and income much easier. Let’s take a look into the third dividend growth stock category - Dividend Challengers.

Thirteen stocks from the Dividend Challengers list (stocks with dividend growth between 5 to 10 consecutive years) fulfilled my above mentioned criteria. One stock has a high yield close to the double-digit yield ratio and five got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. Most of the companies from the screening results are low capitalized; eight of them have a market capitalization under USD 2 billion.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 28, 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 28, 2013. In total, 11 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 63 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.39%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Six Flags Entertainment Corporation	SIX	3.71B	11.14	8.92	3.40	4.63%
CNOOC Ltd.	CEO	79.93B	7.73	1.58	1.98	4.14%
Great Plains Energy	GXP	3.57B	14.99	1.06	1.50	3.75%
United-Guardian Inc.	UG	121.92M	23.67	8.47	8.78	3.32%
Cott Corporation	COT	811.60M	19.34	1.37	0.36	2.82%
Etablissements Delhaize Freres	DEG	6.60B	40.70	0.97	0.22	2.09%
Harley-Davidson, Inc.	HOG	12.43B	18.73	4.72	2.17	1.52%
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.	GS	72.77B	10.92	0.95	1.75	1.26%
Lender Processing Services, Inc.	LPS	2.80B	33.32	4.71	1.43	1.21%
Expedia Inc.	EXPE	7.98B	47.61	3.70	1.89	0.88%
La-Z-Boy Inc.	LZB	993.60M	21.33	2.11	0.76	0.84%

The Best Consumer Dividend Stocks

Consumer Goods Dividend Stocks With High Return On Investments And Big Operating Margins Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Consumer goods stocks are of low volatility. Consumers rarely change their behavior in terms of preferred brands when the economy is getting worse. That’s why many consumer goods companies are so stable. They grow with their population/ customer base and could pay stable dividends.

I screened the consumer goods sector by stocks with an operating margin and return on investment over 15 percent. In addition, the stock should have a minimum dividend yield of two percent. Fifteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which two are high yields.