4 Long-Term Dividend Growth Picks For 2014

Happy new year for all readers! The year 2014 is really fresh and we must look for new stock ideas that could bring us a great return over the year.

This blog discovers primarily dividend growth stocks but has also income in focus. Below are 4 dividend stocks that have grown dividends in the past. Their management is shareholder friendly and has shared their business success with the owner of the company. 

Not enough: The best thing is that they have big potential to boost future dividends. With low payout ratios and high growth rates, these stocks future dividend growth rates will likely double, triple, or even quadruple the rate of inflation for years to come.

4 picks with potential to boost dividends for the year 2014 are....

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6 Best Risk Rewarded Dividend Stocks From The S&P 500

Investors should take care about the risk when they plan to invest. A good and well-known indicator for the risk assessment is the Shape ratio.

The ratio evaluates the performance of the stock in relation to its volatility. It's also a figure that is based on the past performance data. Future developments are not detected.

Below are 6 stocks from the S&P 500 with very attractive Sharpe ratios. My main criteria are a dividend yield of more than 1 percent at a payout ratio of less than 100 percent of earnings.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 15, 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 August 15, 2013. In total, 54 stocks go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.86%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
The GEO Group, Inc.	GEO	2.45B	13.13	2.37	1.58	5.79%
Highwoods Properties Inc.	HIW	2.92B	55.02	2.37	5.42	4.83%
Tronox Limited	TROX	2.60B	1.54	1.05	1.39	4.36%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.65	1.01	3.27%
AEGON N.V.	AEG	15.14B	11.80	0.40	0.24	3.08%
Companhia Siderurgica Nacional	SID	4.88B	-	1.27	0.58	2.99%
PartnerRe Ltd.	PRE	5.00B	9.56	0.79	0.95	2.89%
United Parcel Service, Inc.	UPS	82.71B	101.99	22.84	1.52	2.83%
American Water Works	AWK	7.57B	20.69	1.68	2.64	2.63%
L-3 Communications Holdings	LLL	8.39B	11.11	1.50	0.63	2.36%
Deluxe Corp.	DLX	2.17B	12.35	4.51	1.41	2.33%
Ryder System, Inc.	R	3.08B	13.89	1.99	0.49	2.27%
Allison Transmission Holdings	ALSN	4.26B	35.29	2.98	2.19	2.09%
j2 Global, Inc.	JCOM	2.37B	19.86	3.68	5.27	1.84%
Tim Hortons Inc.	THI	9.01B	22.52	7.52	2.95	1.70%
AmerisourceBergen Corporation	ABC	13.43B	22.98	5.55	0.16	1.44%
SemGroup Corporation	SEMG	2.32B	37.58	2.10	1.92	1.39%
FLIR Systems, Inc.	FLIR	4.72B	20.88	3.03	3.24	1.08%
Tractor Supply Company	TSCO	8.50B	29.24	7.43	1.74	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	15.82B	75.99	6.92	10.62	0.11%

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20 Dividend Challengers With Fastest Growing Dividends

Dividend Challengers with fastest growing dividend payments originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I screened Dividend Champs with the fastest rate of dividend growth. Mc Donald’s was my best yielding pick. I noticed that the top 20 stocks had a 10 year dividend growth performance of remarkable 10 to 30 percent yearly but for most of them, the performance slowed within the recent years.

It’s not possible of any company to raise dividends at a very high rate over a longer period. It’s also not possible to raise dividend payments with a gaining momentum. Every company that does this must reduce its growth speed over the time.

Today, I like to introduce some of the fastest growing dividend payers that have raised their distributions at least for five consecutive years but less than ten years. Here, the best results have grown their dividend payments over the recent five years with a rate of 90 to 30 percent. That’s definitely a higher growth figure but as I told, very growth rate will come down.

Below the top results of my screen are eleven stocks with a buy or better rating. Three of them are High-Yields.

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