Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week 18/2016

Dividend growth investing is a popular model followed by the investing community to build assets.

Companies which not only pay dividends, but raise them year after year have been shown to perform better overall for investor returns. Following companies announced dividend increases this week.

These are the dividend grower from the past week... 

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Company	Ticker	New Yield	New Dividend	Dividend Growth in %
West Bancorp	WTBA	3.65	0.17	6.25%
American Natl Insurance	ANAT	2.78	0.82	2.50%
Community West Bancshares	CWBC	1.94	0.035	16.67%
First South Bancorp	FSBK	1.44	0.03	20.00%
Legg Mason	LM	2.76	0.22	10.00%
Provident Finl Svcs	PFS	3.59	0.18	5.88%
Summit Hotel Properties	INN	4.58	0.1325	12.77%
Agree Realty	ADC	4.79	0.48	3.23%
Bank Mutual	BKMU	2.74	0.055	10.00%
Cognex	CGNX	0.73	0.075	7.14%
Columbia Pipeline Ptrs	CPPL	5.36	0.1875	4.17%
First Merchants	FRME	2.22	0.14	27.27%
Macquarie Infrastructure	MIC	7.02	1.2	4.35%
Manhattan Bridge	LOAN	8.55	0.09	5.88%
National Healthcare	NHC	2.8	0.45	12.50%
Sturm Ruger	RGR	2.8	0.48	37.14%
Tractor Supply	TSCO	1.01	0.24	20.00%
Baxter International	BAX	1.15	0.13	13.04%
Community Healthcare Tr	CHCT	8	0.38	0.66%
ManpowerGroup	MAN	2.23	0.86	7.50%
PepsiCo	PEP	2.89	0.7525	7.12%
Sabra Healthcare REIT	SBRA	7.4	0.42	2.44%
Weyco Group	WEYS	3.11	0.21	5.00%
Amer Campus Communities	ACC	3.61	0.42	5.00%
Artesian Resources Cl A	ARTNA	3.14	0.2249	1.49%
CA Inc	CA	3.47	0.255	2.00%
Cardinal Health	CAH	2.29	0.4489	15.99%
Chesapeake Utilities	CPK	1.97	0.305	6.09%
CNO Financial Group	CNO	1.74	0.08	14.29%
Enviva Partners	EVA	9.25	0.51	10.87%
Expeditors Intl of Wash	EXPD	1.69	0.4	11.11%
Great Ajax	AJX	7.18	0.25	4.17%
Heritage Insurance	HRTG	1.85	0.06	20.00%
Hyster-Yale Materials	HY	1.98	0.295	3.51%
Materion	MTRN	1.47	0.095	5.56%
Microchip Technology	MCHP	3.01	0.3595	0.14%
NRG Yield Cl A	NYLDA	6.31	0.23	2.22%
NRG Yield Cl C	NYLD	5.93	0.23	2.22%
Penske Automotive	PAG	2.92	0.27	3.85%
Phillips 66	PSX	3.19	0.63	12.50%
Quaker Chemical	KWR	1.62	0.345	7.81%
Sabine Royalty Tr UBI	SBR	6.01	0.16435	18.60%
Sinclair Broadcast Cl A	SBGI	2.24	0.18	9.09%
Skywest	SKYW	0.87	0.05	25.00%
VSE	VSEC	0.36	0.06	9.09%
CatchMark Timber Trust	CTT	4.93	0.135	8.00%
Cogent Communications	CCOI	3.77	0.37	2.78%
CrossAmerica Partners	CAPL	10.41	0.5975	0.84%
Easterly Govt Properties	DEA	4.89	0.23	4.55%
Fortress Invt Group Cl A	FIG	7.07	0.09	12.50%
j2 Global	JCOM	2.07	0.335	3.08%
Metaldyne Performance	MPG	2.32	0.0925	2.78%
Mueller Industries	MLI	1.29	0.1	33.33%
Preferred Apt Cmnts	APTS	5.94	0.2025	5.19%
RLI Corp	RLI	1.24	0.2	5.26%
Southside Bancshares	SBSI	3.13	0.22857	4.35%
United Insurance Holdings	UIHC	1.39	0.06	20.00%

20 Best Yielding Profitable Growing Buyback Kings And My 8 Favorite Stocks

Today's screen discovers stocks with recent buyback announcements. I've compiled those stocks with a recent buyback program announcement.

Those buybacks are paid from a profitable operating business that is growing, not only in the past but should also go forward in the near future.

A consequence is that each of the attached stocks has a positive 5 years past sales performance, positive return on assets and positive expected 5 year EPS growth predictions as well.

Attached you will find the 20 best yielding results.

These are my personal favorites...

Dogs Of The Dow Jones: Quarterly Performance Review

Dividend-paying stocks appeal to many investors, with low interest rates on bonds making them one of the sole remaining sources of plentiful portfolio income. 

For income-hungry investors, the Dow Jones Industrials and its 30 constituents are an obvious place to look for high-quality dividend stocks. 

One way that dividend investors use the Dow to come up with a simple-to-follow strategy is known as the Dogs of the Dow, which offer both above-average yields and often outperformance on a total return basis.

Yesterday I wrote about the Dogs of the Dow Jones by total payout yield. Those are the cheapest stocks from the Dow Jones by dividend yield and buyback yield.

Today I like to come back to the origin Dogs strategy. Let's look more closely at this year's 10 Dogs of the Dow to see whether the strategy is worth looking at more closely in 2016.

Here are the Dogs of the Dow Jones and the performance over the recent quarter....

10 Top Dogs Of The Dow Jones By Total Payout Yield

Below are 10 of the cheapest stocks from the Dow Jones, also named as Dogs of the Dow. 

Whith this action I like to give you an update related to this kind of investing strategy. The origin strategy puts the cheapest stocks by P/E and Yield into a baskest. 

But there are also stocks cheap that have low yields due to high share buybacks. Attached you will find a small modification. There are the 10 Dogs of the Dow Jones with the highest net payout yield. The ratio summarizes the dividend yield and buyback yield.

Here are the current Dogs of the Dow Jones...

12 Dividend Stocks To Buy And Hold For The Next 20 Years

According to legendary investor Warren Buffett, the best holding period is forever. While most investors may not have quite that long of a time horizon, the key to successful investing is buying high-quality stocks at reasonable prices and holding them for a very long time. With that in mind, I come up with some ideas for stocks that can be safely held for the next 20 years.

You might agree with me or not but growth is more important for this issue. Only a stocks with solid growth perspectives could give you a price appreciation.

That's also the reason why I'm looking for stocks with growth. My second criteria are profitability. Only a company that scales it's money making machine could create values, not a stock that wides losses. That's easily to understand.

Attached you find my 12 favorite dividend paying growth stocks. Which do you like from the list?

Here are the results...