Dividends And Growth Combined: 5 Top Stock Picks That Could Outperform The Market

Who’s not dreaming about a long-term orientated portfolio that increases in value and pays you each year a higher dividend that beats inflation? I do!

The good think is that it's possible to create such a big income source with small money. I've also created a virtual portfolio with income focus in order show how dividend growth investing can look like.

Back to my daily stock idea that I often publish on this blog. I've created some ideas what stocks delivered good returns in the past and can also possibly outperform the overall market within the next years. It’s a combination of growth and dividends. These are my main criteria:

- Market cap is greater than $100 million.

- Dividend yield is greater than the dividend yield of the industry.

- The payout ratio is less than 100%.

- Past 5 years dividend growth rate is bigger than the dividend growth of the industry.

- Average annual earnings growth estimates for the next 5 years is greater than 10%.

- Past 5 years EPS growth is greater than the average industry value.

Attached are my five favorite picks with more fundamentals. The screen delivered some more results like the luxury brand company Coach, the German industrial conglomerate Siemens or the home improvement stock Leggett & Platt.

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30 Top Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 30 companies announced a dividend hike within the recent week. Only six of them are large capitalized stocks and five are really cheap in terms of a low forward P/E.

It’s in line with our recognition of rising stock market multiples. Real cheap stocks are very rare. The most dangerous item are growth expectations. Growth let earnings multiples grow but you need low multiples with a solid growing business to make a good return.

The biggest results are Itau Unibanco, Goldman Sachs and Abbott Laboratories as well.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 10, 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.

In total, 54 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Banco Santander-Chile	SAN	88.72B	15.36	0.92	2.34	7.22%
Mid-America Apartment Communities	MAA	2.62B	38.19	2.68	4.96	4.52%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan	POT	28.03B	12.55	2.72	3.49	4.32%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.59B	14.47	2.80	2.14	4.20%
ConocoPhillips	COP	86.29B	11.37	1.78	1.44	3.93%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	32.24B	11.71	1.62	1.81	3.80%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	70.74B	13.70	19.88	3.78	3.59%
Leidos Holdings, Inc.	LDOS	3.83B	9.18	1.63	0.36	2.82%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.49B	-	2.18	7.22	2.64%
PNC Financial Services Group Inc.	PNC	37.46B	10.64	0.93	3.59	2.48%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	51.51B	62.28	2.31	2.37	1.70%
Watsco Inc.	WSO	3.04B	29.98	3.82	0.84	1.69%
American Financial Group Inc.	AFG	4.75B	9.71	1.06	0.93	1.66%
Buckle Inc.	BKE	2.48B	14.97	7.31	2.16	1.54%
IDEX Corporation	IEX	5.26B	98.85	3.55	2.65	1.43%
Trinity Industries Inc.	TRN	3.36B	11.94	1.54	0.86	1.38%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	17.01B	-	1.31	1.16	1.34%
Agilent Technologies Inc.	A	16.99B	18.71	3.55	2.49	0.96%
EMCOR Group Inc.	EME	2.47B	18.19	1.77	0.39	0.65%

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Shares

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 week.

In total, 75 stocks go ex dividend - of which 29 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the next week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	181.61B	25.57	2.11	1.42	5.33%
Sasol Ltd.	SSL	29.77B	11.44	1.98	1.65	4.63%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	134.94B	87.22	3.96	1.14	4.50%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan	POT	28.50B	12.76	2.76	3.55	4.25%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.80B	14.76	2.88	2.18	4.11%
Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold	FCX	33.10B	12.02	1.67	1.86	3.70%
AbbVie Inc.	ABBV	74.37B	14.40	20.89	3.97	3.42%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	30.83B	18.03	4.52	1.70	3.17%
Aviva plc	AV	19.64B	-	1.27	0.35	2.62%
General Growth Properties Inc.	GGP	18.65B	-	2.20	7.29	2.62%
General Dynamics Corp.	GD	30.16B	-	2.57	0.96	2.61%
Marsh & McLennan Companies	MMC	23.99B	18.69	3.54	1.99	2.30%
Accenture plc	ACN	47.66B	15.29	8.96	1.58	2.21%
Covidien plc	COV	28.04B	16.80	2.90	2.63	2.12%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.47B	23.45	14.60	2.47	2.07%
Gap Inc.	GPS	18.96B	14.95	5.48	1.17	1.97%
Smith & Nephew plc	SNN	11.12B	20.27	2.85	2.66	1.69%
Abbott Laboratories	ABT	52.37B	63.32	2.35	2.41	1.67%
WPP plc	WPPGY	25.43B	20.22	2.07	1.47	1.64%
Chesapeake Energy Corporation	CHK	17.30B	-	1.33	1.18	1.32%

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