Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth August 2011

Fastest Dividend Growth Shares by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend stocks are very popular within the investment scene. High yields, low yields, whatever you search, it is not enough. One of the major items on the capital markets that determine the value of stocks is growth. Grew the company? Will the company grow within the next five years? Could it grow faster? The same principals also apply to dividend stocks. What are the stocks with fastest dividend growth and consecutive dividend increasing? Is there a chance of accelerated growth?

I screened a table of companies with the fastest dividend growth compared to the previous dividend declaration. The dividend growth is often a good indicator for the financial health of a stock. Companies with a strong increase in dividends judge the future of their company rosy. They give money back to shareholders that they don’t need for their business.

Here are my 3 most promising stocks from the screening results:

1. Home Bancshares (HOMB) is acting within the money center banks industry. The company has a market capitalization of USD 635.8 million, generates revenues in an amount of USD 167.7 million and a net income of USD 19.3 million. It follows P/E ratio is 33.3 and forward price to earnings ratio 11.6, Price/Sales 3.8 and Price/Book ratio 1.3. Dividend Yield: 1.4 percent. Years of Consecutive Dividend Increasing: 0 Years. 5-Year Dividend Growth: 0 percent. The company paid dividends since 2006. Dividend growth since previous dividend declaration: 48.1 percent.

2. Sturm, Ruger and Company (RGR) is acting within the sporting goods industry. The company has a market capitalization of USD 557.9 million, generates revenues in an amount of USD 277.6 million and a net income of USD 30.5 million. It follows P/E ratio is 18.4 and forward price to earnings ratio 15.3, Price/Sales 2.0 and Price/Book ratio 4.3. Dividend Yield: 1.2 percent. Years of Consecutive Dividend Increasing: 1 Year. 5-Year Dividend Growth: 0 percent. The company paid dividends since 1990. Dividend growth since previous dividend declaration: 46.4 percent.

3. Atrion Corporation (ATRI) is acting within the medical instruments and supplies industry. The company has a market capitalization of USD 389.6 million, generates revenues in an amount of USD 115.5 million and a net income of USD 24.7 million. It follows Price/Earnings ratio is 15.85, Price/Sales 3.4 and Price/Book ratio 3.0. Dividend Yield: 0.9 percent. Years of Consecutive Dividend Increasing: 7 Years. 5-Year Dividend Growth: 109.1 percent. The company paid dividends since 1990. Dividend growth since previous dividend declaration: 16.7 percent.

Take a closer look at the full table of the fastest dividend growth stocks. The average dividend-yield amounts to 3.04 percent and the average dividend growth is 24.07 percent.

Stocks With Fastest Dividend Growth  (Click to enlarge)

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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%

100 Best Small Cap Stocks To Place Your Money

Small cap stocks with a strong growth and best dividends to buy, originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Everybody loves growth. If you own an investment and it starts to grow by double-digit rates over a few years, when the stock price explode and you feel like a bird in heaven. I felt a few times like this. But it is also necessary that you sell partly your position over the time. I personally reduce my stocks positions when they have doubled or more. Certainly you can’t get very rich with this rule but you hedge your stock gains and believe me by selling stocks with gains, nobody become poor.

I recently viewed a nice list at Forbes. The list was a research result of the 100 best small cap growth stocks in America. Stocks from the table are public and tradeable in America. They all have a total sales volume below the USD 1 billion mark and fantastic years of recent growth. As you can see at the list, the GDP growth is America is still weak but out there are still investment opportunities to discover.

I discovered the ten best dividend stocks from the small cap growth picks. I needed to screen more than 50 companies in order to find ten stocks with positive dividend payments. Most of the small cap growth stocks don’t pay dividends. But the debt situation is very comfortable. Most of them are free of debt and have bigger cash amounts to their balance sheets in order to finance future growth. The average stock grew in sales by 19 percent yearly. Earnings followd by 31 percent growth yearly and the average return on equity amounted to 20 percent. See the full list of the 100 best small cap growth stocks at the end of this post.

IBM Position Increase By 25% For The Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio

Last Friday I increased my IBM stake for the third time since I funded the Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio virtual.

I purchased only 4 shares at $173.78. The total purchase amount was only around $700. I think that the stock price can fall further. 

As of now, the position is still the biggest constituent in the portfolio with a 3.4 percent share. I think it makes sense to grow the position to five percent or so but that’s a question for the future.

IBM’s forward P/E is in a single digit range at 9.51 and growth for the next five years of 9.77 is predicted by analysts.

The current yield is still not high, only at 2.19 percent but the dividend payout is also only at a ratio of 24.60 percent. IBM buys many own shares to boost the current earnings per share growth in a successful way.

Latest Portfolio Transactions (Click to enlarge)

Latest Portfolio I (Click to enlarge)

Latest Portfolio II (Click to enlarge)

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For readers who are new to the matter and my dividend growth philosophy: I funded a virtual portfolio with 100k on October 04, 2012 with the aim to build a passive income stream that doubles each five to ten years. I plan to purchase each week one stock holding until the money is fully invested. The total number of constituents is expected at 50 – 70 companies and the dividend income should be at least at $3,000 per year.

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Stock holdings of the portfolio are up 8.88 percent since the date of funding. The cash position is at $25,376 and should let the dividend income grow over time when it’s invested.

Latest Portfolio Performance (Click to enlarge)

Here is the income perspective of the portfolio

Sym	Name	P/E Ratio	Dividend Yield	Buy	# Shrs	Income	Value
TRI	Thomson Reuters C	26.7	3.7	28.90	50	$64.75	$1,749.50
LMT	Lockheed Martin C	14.51	3.56	92.72	20	$92.00	$2,578.00
INTC	Intel Corporation	12.92	3.76	21.27	50	$45.00	$1,193.75
MCD	McDonald's Corpor	17.48	3.23	87.33	15	$46.20	$1,428.00
WU	Western Union Com	11.56	3.28	11.95	100	$60.00	$1,866.00
PM	Philip Morris Int	16.88	3.96	85.42	20	$68.78	$1,738.60
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	20.51	2.76	69.19	20	$50.80	$1,832.60
MO	Altria Group Inc	16.28	5.05	33.48	40	$72.00	$1,434.40
SYY	Sysco Corporation	19.22	3.46	31.65	40	$44.40	$1,282.80
DRI	Darden Restaurant	18.4	3.96	46.66	30	$61.50	$1,562.10
CA	CA Inc.	13.11	3.33	21.86	50	$50.00	$1,505.00
PG	Procter & Gamble	20.58	2.93	68.72	25	$58.20	$1,985.25
KRFT	Kraft Foods Group	17.6	2.79	44.41	40	$80.00	$2,147.60
MAT	Mattel Inc.	19.04	3.16	36.45	40	$53.60	$1,707.60
PEP	Pepsico Inc. Com	19.45	2.64	70.88	20	$43.60	$1,660.20
KMB	Kimberly-Clark Co	21.06	3.13	86.82	15	$46.50	$1,487.70
COP	ConocoPhillips Co	12.25	3.64	61.06	20	$52.80	$1,468.60
GIS	General Mills In	18.35	2.8	42.13	30	$41.10	$1,475.70
UL	Unilever PLC Comm	18.76	3.37	39.65	35	$47.01	$1,398.95
NSRGY	NESTLE SA REG SHR	19.67	3.06	68.69	30	$65.31	$2,161.80
GE	General Electric	18.27	3	23.39	65	$48.10	$1,660.75
ADP	Automatic Data Pr	25.67	2.35	61.65	25	$43.50	$1,854.75
K	Kellogg Company C	23.36	2.92	61.52	25	$44.50	$1,536.25
KO	Coca-Cola Company	19.98	2.84	38.83	40	$43.80	$1,551.20
RTN	Raytheon Company	13.41	2.71	57.04	20	$42.00	$1,537.20
RCI	Rogers Communicat	11.98	3.78	46.5	50	$84.00	$2,252.00
GPC	Genuine Parts Com	18.19	2.56	77.06	20	$41.28	$1,573.00
TSCDY	TESCO PLC SPONS A	N/A	3.82	17.08	110	$75.68	$1,980.00
APD	Air Products and	23.45	2.46	85.71	15	$40.50	$1,652.85
GSK	GlaxoSmithKline P	19.45	4.64	52.16	30	$71.13	$1,530.90
WMT	Wal-Mart Stores	14.75	2.39	79.25	20	$36.16	$1,514.20
BTI	British American	16.4	3.9	111.13	23	$96.14	$2,469.05
CHL	China Mobile Limi	10.73	4.01	55.32	25	$54.95	$1,382.00
MMM	3M Company Common	19.19	2.03	110.27	15	$37.43	$1,842.60
TUP	Tupperware Brands	19.73	2.13	80.98	15	$29.40	$1,389.45
IBM	International Bus	12.41	2.06	193.17	20	$72.00	$3,475.60
HAS	Hasbro Inc.	18.94	3.25	44.09	30	$45.60	$1,417.20
T	AT&T Inc.	26.37	5.2	34.47	30	$53.70	$1,038.30
WAG	Walgreen Co. Comm	22.95	1.94	44.25	30	$34.20	$1,757.70
AFL	AFLAC Incorporate	9.18	2.12	59.39	20	$28.00	$1,315.60
TGT	Target Corporatio	15.63	2.33	68.69	32	$48.32	$2,069.44
CSCO	Cisco Systems In	12.25	2.72	25.12	90	$55.80	$2,066.49
DE	Deere & Company C	9.6	2.32	84.11	15	$29.10	$1,262.85
RGR	Sturm Ruger & Co	14.13	2.89	51.65	20	$38.52	$1,351.40
LO	Lorillard Inc Co	14.81	4.56	42.3	30	$65.00	$1,431.90
UNP	Union Pacific Cor	17.21	1.89	154.75	8	$22.88	$1,216.80
IDA	IDACORP Inc. Com	13.51	3.01	47.94	20	$30.40	$1,027.40
BAX	Baxter Internatio	16.78	2.74	66.38	20	$36.80	$1,320.00
MSFT	Microsoft Corpora	13.53	2.63	33.88	40	$36.80	$1,398.40
ACN	Accenture plc. Cl	14.77	2.22	77.71	20	$32.40	$1,457.60
						$2,561.63	$82,997.03
						Average Yield	3.09%
						Yield On Cost	3.36%