14 Best Growing Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats are a group of 50 stocks in the S&P 500 Index that have increased their dividend payments for at least 25 consecutive years, a sign of impressive profitability, financial strength, and management's confidence in the business.

Looking at each of the 50 dividend aristocrats on the list today here are the top 10 dividend stocks that could be the most successful companies over the next decade and beyond.

I've made the effort for you to screen the Dividend Aristocrats list by those growth orientated companies. Each of the following stocks has grown sales in the past five years by more than 5 percent while earnings are expected to grow by more than 5 percent in the next five years.

Exactly 14 Dividend Aristocrats fulfilled these tight growth criteria of which 6 pay a dividend over 2 percent, calculated on the current trading price.

These are the best Dividend Aristocrats by growth...

15 Large Cap Cash Machines With Big And Safe Dividends

To identify companies with hefty yields that are “safe”—that is, the dividends are unlikely to be trimmed—We screened the S&P for stocks yielding at least 3%.

We excluded energy and mining companies and other outfits tied to commodity prices, as the recent bear market in commodities makes further dividend cuts likely, even though oil has begun to rebound.

We also screened for companies whose free-cash-flow yield—free cash flow divided by stock price—exceeds their dividend yield. 

Free cash, which is what’s left after a company makes all of the necessary investments to run its business, is an important measure of stability and potential growth, as well as the source of dividend payments. 

The more of it, the better—and the more likely a company is to maintain and, better yet, grow its payout.

These results apeared on the screen:

7 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats

In the stock market, value often is in the eye of the beholder. At a time when many stocks seem overpriced in light of a tepid global economy and anemic growth in revenues and profits, we went hunting for businesses that offer value in ways that may not be evident from their price-earnings ratios.

To make the initial cut, companies had to show higher operating earnings in the first quarter of the calendar year than in the same period in 2015—a sign that the basic business was improving despite the disappointing economy.

To make it easy for my readers, I concentrated my research on the best dividend growth stocks and used the Dividend Aristocrats Index to start the search of high-quality dividend stocks.

I screened the index by the cheapest stocks in terms of forward P/E. It's always a good way to find cheaply valuated stocks which are not affected by current, short-term accounting issues.

Here are the results...

These 7 Dividend Kings Still Grow On Sales Basis While Others Shrink

The dividend kings index includes companies which have managed to increase dividends for over fifty consecutive years. 

A company that regularly raises dividends to the tune of fifty years in a row is the type of company that every serious dividend growth investor should study.

It's also important that the dividend kings are able to grow further in order to generate a return for its shareholders. But you must be careful to judge the companies growth. There are several ways to generate earnings growth, remember share buybacks or extraordinary one off items. The true growth comes always from sales growth and higher market share while margins are stable or improve.

It’s always interesting to look at companies’ sales growth, because the usual quarterly focus on whether companies beat or miss consensus earnings estimates doesn’t really mean anything. 

A company can “beat” the (recently lowered) estimates while showing a major earnings decline. A company can also experience a one-time even that can skew earnings for a quarter or a whole year. It’s more useful to look at sales growth. 

Here’s how well the 18 dividend kings succeeded in increasing their sales per share over the past 12 reported months:

Global Dividend Dogs For May 2016

Please find attached the current list of the Dividends Dogs for May 2016. The list contain 50 stocks with yields between 4.78% and 19.33%.

What is a dividend dog? 

 The "dog" moniker is earned in three steps: 

(1) any stock paying a reliable, repeating dividend 

(2) whose price has fallen to a point where its yield (dividend/price) 

(3) has grown higher than its peers (here in the Global collection) is tagged as a dividend dog. 

Global Dividend Dogs For May 2016, Source: Seeking Alpha