15 Best Performing Dividend Growth Stocks

3 Market-Leading Dividend Growth Stocks By Scott's Investments. Equity markets have felt like a roller coaster this spring and summer, with major US indices bouncing between technical highs and lows. While we continue to trade in a broad range, I thought it would be helpful to identify dividend stocks that have bucked the trend and have show relative strength over the past three, six, and 12 months. Below are the top 15 stocks based on the average of their three-, six-, and 12-month returns.

Here are the shares:

Company	Ticker	Average 3,6,12 Mo Return	Yield	Payout
Polaris Industries	PII	55.76%	1.52%	31.97%
CARBO Ceramics	CRR	41.95%	0.62%	0.00%
VF Corp.	VFC	36.21%	2.16%	24.74%
Royal Gold Inc.	RGLD	33.44%	0.67%	35.50%
Helmerich & Payne Inc.	HP	30.38%	0.41%	7.29%
Flowers Foods	FLO	27.38%	2.73%	53.04%
Bank of the Ozarks Inc.	OZRK	26.30%	1.44%	12.79%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	24.03%	1.82%	23.62%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	23.63%	1.71%	26.42%
Gorman-Rupp Company	GRC	23.42%	1.09%	24.59%
Raven Industries	RAVN	22.93%	1.37%	27.51%
Ross Stores Inc.	ROST	22.86%	1.15%	14.21%
W.P. Carey & Co. LLC	WPC	22.77%	5.71%	92.01%
1st Source Corp.	SRCE	21.91%	2.76%	37.35%
Albemarle Corp.	ALB	21.73%	0.99%	13.99%

Related Stock Ticker:
PII, CRR, VFC, RGLD, HP, FLO, OZRK, HIFS, NUS, GRC, RAVN, ROST, WPC, SRCE, ALB

Source: Seeking Alpha

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 02, 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 July 02, 2013. In total, 33 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.98%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
DCT Industrial Trust Inc.	DCT	2.01B	-	1.50	7.40	3.92%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	20.13B	19.75	3.90	0.46	3.28%
BankUnited, Inc.	BKU	2.47B	12.81	1.34	3.40	3.23%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	73.20B	50.78	5.36	4.52	3.13%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	54.52B	10.58	1.60	2.54	3.07%
Erie Indemnity Co.	ERIE	3.73B	26.39	5.86	0.67	2.97%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	201.56B	9.43	1.02	3.68	2.88%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	27.56B	-	2.38	0.88	2.86%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	58.21B	10.34	1.71	2.33	2.67%
Gentex Corp.	GNTX	3.29B	19.70	2.82	3.05	2.43%
Medtronic, Inc.	MDT	52.20B	15.23	2.80	3.15	2.02%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	2.73B	32.88	1.16	9.34	1.90%
Masco Corporation	MAS	6.82B	-	24.06	0.88	1.54%
Monsanto Co.	MON	52.77B	21.48	3.80	3.58	1.52%
American Express Company	AXP	82.16B	18.93	4.26	2.42	1.23%
Torchmark Corp.	TMK	6.10B	11.80	1.42	1.67	1.04%
Whole Foods Market, Inc.	WFM	19.08B	37.04	5.25	1.52	0.78%

Best Dividend Paying Ex-Dividend Shares On January 02, 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 January 02, 2013. In total, 27 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 9 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.70%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Enerplus Corporation	ERF	2.57B	-	0.79	2.43	8.44%
Mack-Cali Realty Corp.	CLI	2.28B	36.77	1.26	3.20	6.89%
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company	BMY	53.80B	29.90	3.87	2.85	4.30%
The Toronto-Dominion Bank	TD	77.44B	12.42	1.61	3.47	3.65%
Sysco Corp.	SYY	18.61B	16.84	3.80	0.43	3.54%
BB&T Corporation	BBT	20.37B	11.46	0.99	2.93	2.75%
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	JPM	167.14B	9.34	0.84	2.91	2.73%
Masco Corporation	MAS	5.95B	-	12.53	0.78	1.80%
Monsanto Co.	MON	50.63B	25.11	4.28	3.75	1.58%
American Express Company	AXP	64.32B	13.31	3.31	1.92	1.39%
Torchmark Corp.	TMK	4.91B	10.17	1.14	1.40	1.16%
CLARCOR Inc.	CLC	2.39B	19.66	2.67	2.10	1.13%
Royal Gold, Inc.	RGLD	5.24B	50.22	2.60	18.94	0.98%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	75.24B	11.35	2.03	2.58	0.53%
BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.	BRFS	18.42B	100.52	2.70	1.37	-
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBDO	62.08B	11.36	1.91	2.61	0.67%
Banco Bradesco S.A.	BBD	65.71B	12.18	2.02	3.28	0.62%
Itau Unibanco Holding S.A.	ITUB	74.19B	11.19	2.00	2.54	0.55%
BRF - Brasil Foods S.A.	BRFS	18.01B	98.29	2.58	1.36	-