24 Stocks With Higher Dividend Payments (Announced Within The Past Week)

24 stocks announced a growing dividend in the past week. The biggest names were Illinois Tool Works, Expedia, Hershey and Broadridge Financial Solutions.

Big is beautiful but to pay a high price for growth or more safety is also irrational. In terms of cheapness, measured by forward P/E's are Avnet, State National and Ares Management the top picks.

Asset managers become the latest stocks on my cheap dividend plays but the industry also faces a strong headwind of out flooding money. How it will end in the mid-term is a question of believe. I do think that AUM will growth in the future but there is still a high sensibility to financial crisis and depressions.

However, let's face the facts. These are the latest dividend growers. Attached is also a list of the 20 biggest stocks with dividend growth in the past week. Which do you like?

These are the latest dividend growers....

20 Highest Yielding Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Coming Week

Attached is a list of the highest yielding stocks that go ex-dividend within the upcoming week. The full list can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week August 17 - 23, 2015. Only MidCaps with a market cap over 2 billion were included.

Below is a current stock list of dividend stocks (common shares, preferred shares and American Depositary Receipts – ADR’s), paying forthcoming dividends and having their ex-dividend August 17, 2015 – August 23, 2015. The average dividend-yield amounts to 8.25 percent.

Chevron, Goldcorp, Ares, British American Tobacco, Consolidated Edison, Thomson Reuters and Cummis are my favorites. Which do you like?

11 Dividend Aristocrats With Yields Over 4 Percent

When it comes to high-yield stocks, many big payouts are too good to be true.

Many battered companies feature sky-high yields, but that’s simply a product of math — if dividend yield is the payout divided by the stock price, and that stock price gets smaller, the yield will naturally get bigger.

The same can’t be said about dividend aristocrats — stocks with enough financial stability that they’ve been able to raise dividends for at least 25 consecutive years.

That’s as much proof as you can get that a company knows how to handle its cash, and how to spend it on investors, without putting its business in danger.

Of course, many dividend aristocrats still feature piddling yields — some lower than 1%. What’s more enticing to income investors is a dividend aristocrat that not only grows its payouts, but also offers a substantially high yield. 

So, today we’ll be looking at such dividend aristocrats that are recording decades of dividend growth while also yielding at least 4%.

These are the results:

20 Best Dividend Performance Kings In Review

Dividend investors looking for income and income growth, that's true but if we are honest, a solid performance is better than a small dividend amount.

Pennies become dollars and hundreds of dollars end in a million one day. Small dividends count and will contribute to your first million.

Today I like to show you those dividend paying stocks that have created the best performance over the past year while their performance did not lose momentum during the past month.

These are the 5 best performing dividend stocks over the past year in detail. Attached you find a list of the 20 best stocks with a performance between 55 to 89 percent.

Here are the results....

10 High-Beta High-Yield Dividend Achievers To Beat The Street

There are a number of great companies in the market today but you need to know where the risks are exactly.

There are several ways to identify a risk. First, you can evalueate the business model and try to understand how they make money.

Second, you can look at the debt, equity, income and growth ratios. Both figures tell you something about the financial health of the corporate. If you like to know how volatile the stock is on the market, you should use the beta ratio.

A company's beta indicates the correlation at which its price moves in relation to the market. A beta greater than 1 indicates a company is more volatile than the market.

I've selected 10 Dividend Achievers for value investors with the highest beta.

These are the top Dividend Achievers...