32 Stocks Raised Dividends Last Week | Oil & Gas Companies Are Big Players

I love dividends and dividend growth stocks because they are one of my major wealth driver. That’s the main reason why I make a regular screen of the latest stocks with dividend growth on my blog “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

I believe that companies with rising dividends should have a well running business and could have a better performance in the long-run. Below is a current list of companies that have announced a dividend hike within the recent week. In total, 32 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 18 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.33 percent.

Below the top dividend growth stocks are eight with a high yield. 16 companies are currently recommended to buy or even have a strong buy rating. 

If I scroll through the list, I find many oil and gas companies as well as financial stocks. Banks pay more dividends in order to establish pre-financial crises level. Well, that’s still far away. 

Oil & Gas pipeline operators raised dividends very continuously in the past. They benefit from the fact that America experiences a new oil rush with shale gas and shale oil. The new energy sources must be transported with an infrastructure that does not exist for the time being. 

It could be more interesting to look at railroad stocks. I try to make a screen in the near future. What are your thoughts about the lastest dividend growth stocks? Do you own some of them? Would you buy one of them? Please let me know and leave a comment in the box below!

Best Ex Dividend Stock List For November 15, 2012

The Best Yielding 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 date on the next trading day.

A full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks on November 15, 2012. In total, 35 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 13 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.07%. If you like to receive the next dividend you need to buy the dividend stocks now.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Hawaiian Electric Industries	HE	2.42B	15.20	1.51	0.71	4.97%
LyondellBasell Industries NV	LYB	28.78B	12.52	2.50	0.62	3.20%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	4.82B	7.07	0.68	0.85	3.15%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	10.63B	15.15	1.28	2.60	2.88%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	2.32B	12.10	1.57	0.37	2.73%
L-3 Communications Holdings	LLL	7.00B	8.78	1.22	0.51	2.69%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.78B	-	1.22	1.51	2.37%
AmerisourceBergen	ABC	10.24B	15.08	4.16	0.13	2.06%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	4.45B	15.21	2.56	1.52	1.99%
Bunge Limited	BG	10.52B	12.26	0.91	0.17	1.50%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	2.89B	13.40	1.81	2.03	1.45%
Carlisle Companies Inc.	CSL	3.49B	13.92	2.01	0.98	1.44%
Western Refining Inc.	WNR	2.31B	31.52	2.35	0.24	1.22%
Pan American Silver Corp.	PAAS	2.98B	11.24	1.08	3.33	1.02%
Solera Holdings Inc.	SLH	3.39B	31.75	4.73	4.30	1.02%
Woodward, Inc.	WWD	2.20B	16.53	2.24	1.21	1.00%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	6.37B	24.76	6.05	1.38	0.89%
QEP Resources, Inc.	QEP	4.96B	32.74	1.49	1.98	0.29%

9 Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Float Short Ratio

Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest Short Float Ratio Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Basic material stocks have a higher volatility, especially in times of cyclic economic growth. Investors could benefit from these fluctuations.

At the stock markets are 601 companies linked to the sector with a total market capitalization of USD 275.1 trillion. The average sector yield amounts to 3.19 percent and the average P/E ratio is 14.45. The highest dividend paying industries are nonmetallic mineral mining and oil and gas pipelines.

I screened the sector by dividend stocks with the highest amount of short selling stocks, measured by the float short ratio. The ratio shows how many stocks are shorted by investors. Companies with a high ratio of float short have a little upside potential if investors need to close their short position. Nine dividend stocks from the basic material sector have a float short ratio of more than 25 percent.