20 Stocks And Funds With Dividend Growth

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I enjoy it really to see how dividends grow. One company with monthly payments that hiked its dividends with an impressive speed is the retail real estate trust Realty Income. Last week they announced only a small hike of 0.2 percent but this bigger dividend will be paid every month.

I personally don’t like REITs and financials because of the high debt. They also invested huge amounts into assets of which I have no idea how they could perform. I stay by my core research competence and let them do their work.

Last week, 19 companies and one fund announced a dividend hike. Only half of them have a current buy or better rating. The average dividend growth of the top dividend growers from last week amounts to 53.73 percent.

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- Dividend Champions Yield Fact Book (5 Pages, approx. 105 companies)

   Stocks with over 25 years of dividend growth

- Dividend Contenders Yield Fact Book (8 Pages, approx. 176 companies)
   Stocks with 10-25 years of dividend growth

- Dividend Challengers Yield Fact Book (8 Pages, approx. 190 companies)
   Stocks with 5-10 years of dividend growth

- Dividend Aristocrats Fact Book (over 50 companies)
   All stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats Index with fundamentals

- Dogs of the Dow Jones Fact Book
   The 10 cheapest stocks from the Dow Jones

- International Dividend Achievers Fact Book

   Over 60 foreign companies with over 10 years of consecutive dividend growth

- Dividend Yield Fact Book "Indices" (16 Pages, approx. 560 companies)
   Dividend stocks from major indices with fundamentals and ratings


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Dividend Weekly World Yield Stock Report 25/2013 | Free PDF Download

Attached is the current Dividend Weekly, a weekly yield and performance report of the world's best dividend paying stocks. Find on over 30 pages the best and highest dividend yields worldwide. The report is available as free PDF download.

The Dividend Weekly is a weekly published Fact Book with focus on dividend stocks. With this book, investors get a full overview of major leaders and laggards. In addition, they get a feeling of which dividend stocks are popular and which ones are the best investment opportunities in markets that are going up and down.

The book has the following items:

- Best 1-Week Performing Dividend Stocks
- Best Dividend Stocks Year-To-Date
- Best Yielding Stocks At New Highs
- Most Recommended Dividend Stocks
- Overbought Dividend Stocks
- Most Shorted Dividend Stocks
- Best Dividend Aristocrats in Canada and USA
- Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week
- Best Yielding Stocks From the World's Leading Stock Exchanges and Indices
- Ex-Dividend Stocks For Next Week

Here is the full book for free read and download:

Bill Ackman’s Highest Yielding Dividend Stock Bets And His Complete Portfolio

Bill Ackman’s latest portfolio transactions and his biggest positions originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Some of you might know Bill Ackman because of the phone battle against Carl Icahn on CNBC. He is an activist with around USD 10 billion in assets under management. In his management company “Pershing Square Capital” he has only 10 stock holdings.

As an activist, Ackman tries to increase pressure on the management of a company in order to implement own visions of the company’s future. Nearly half of his positions have voting rights over 10 percent.

His main investment focus is on defensive stocks from the consumer and industrial sector. Around 70 percent of his exposure is related to these two sectors.

Below is a small list of Bill Ackman’s latest Portfolio transactions. He is a lazy guy. Last quarter, he bought only one stock and he needed more than a year to complete his latest 20 transactions.

From his 20 latest transactions are 12 unique positions of which 10 pay dividends. Dividend payments are not in focus of Ackman’s investment strategy. Only one company yields above the 3 percent mark.

Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Large Cap Stocks

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 June 24 - 30, 2013. In total, 173 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 82 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.45%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	CM	28.81B	9.08	1.88	2.47	5.24%
The Bank Of Nova Scotia	BNS	63.72B	10.15	1.71	3.58	4.42%
TransCanada Corp.	TRP	31.09B	22.70	2.01	3.80	4.11%
The Dow Chemical Company	DOW	38.54B	40.28	2.27	0.68	3.92%
Philip Morris International, Inc.	PM	143.96B	16.79	-	1.85	3.89%
Kraft Foods Group, Inc.	KRFT	31.65B	23.34	8.46	1.72	3.74%
Nucor Corporation	NUE	14.02B	31.65	1.85	0.74	3.34%
Avalonbay Communities Inc.	AVB	15.76B	61.54	1.82	14.27	3.25%
Staples, Inc.	SPLS	10.22B	-	1.68	0.42	3.08%
Bancolombia S.A.	CIB	11.66B	12.52	1.94	2.72	3.01%
Air Products & Chemicals Inc.	APD	19.71B	19.03	3.10	1.97	3.00%
Edison International	EIX	15.02B	9.62	1.57	1.24	2.93%
Republic Services, Inc.	RSG	12.13B	22.15	1.57	1.49	2.81%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	58.38B	10.37	1.71	2.34	2.66%
Cardinal Health, Inc.	CAH	16.11B	14.10	2.36	0.16	2.56%
Wipro Ltd.	WIT	19.76B	18.41	3.92	3.04	2.51%
Xerox Corp.	XRX	11.37B	10.09	0.99	0.51	2.48%
Deere & Company	DE	32.10B	10.14	3.88	0.85	2.47%
Dell Inc.	DELL	23.34B	12.59	2.17	0.41	2.40%
Agrium Inc.	AGU	12.82B	9.03	1.84	0.79	2.33%