Dividend Growth Alert: 38 Stocks With Higher Dividends

Within the recent week, 38 companies have raised their dividend distributions - A good number in my view. On the list are again higher capitalized stocks with a solid track record. I talk about General Electric or 3M.

You can find, like each week, a detailed overview about the biggest stocks below. In addition, there is a full list of all stocks and funds attached.

My favorite Lage Cap dividend grower with recent dividend hikes are...

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16 Dividend Aristocrats With Cheap Forward P/E’s

Dividend Aristocrats income growth stocks with low forward P/E’s originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth is one of the core items of my blog. I always screen the market by stocks with a very long dividend payment history and try to discover some opportunities for you.

What we’ve seen over the recent months is that the market get’s more and more expensive due the low interest environment. It’s really hard to find low valuated stocks with a high quality and proven business model.

Today I would highlight some of the cheapest Dividend Aristocrats on the market. Those stocks have a forward P/E of less than 15.

Only sixteen companies from the index have such a low valuation and one of them has a yield over five percent. Ten are currently recommended to buy.
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17 Cheap Dividend Achievers With Very Low P/S Ratios

Cheaply priced stocks traded below its own book values originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. I love it to look for high quality dividend stocks with a proven long-term track record but one thing I often noticed in my research is that the market gets more and more expensive. But if you would like to make a solid return, you definitely need cheap stocks.

With low yields, the valuation rises in an inflationary environment. That's the key premise in our economy. 

Today I would like to try my best to discover some of the best dividend growth stocks with a current cheap valuation. I use two criteria for screening the Dividend Achievers database: A forward P/E below 15 as well as a price to sales ratio below one.

Exactly 17 dividend growth stocks fulfilled the mentioned criteria. Eight of them got a buy or better rating by brokerage firms. The yields are between 0.95 and 2.91 percent. That’s not much in my view but growth forecasts are positive for all of the results.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 20, 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, 38 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4,46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Northern Tier Energy LP	NTI	2.08B	8.05	4.69	0.44	21.76%
Pengrowth Energy Corporation	PGH	2.95B	-	0.76	2.41	8.06%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
Maxim Integrated Products	MXIM	8.12B	18.46	3.24	3.32	3.73%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.70	2.62	2.56%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.62B	20.81	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%
NVIDIA Corporation	NVDA	8.89B	16.88	2.13	2.10	1.98%
Wyndham Worldwide Corp.	WYN	8.01B	20.81	4.88	1.69	1.96%
Goldcorp Inc.	GG	25.23B	-	1.21	5.17	1.93%
Marriott International, Inc.	MAR	12.39B	20.30	-	0.96	1.71%
NICE Systems Ltd.	NICE	2.32B	28.29	1.93	2.56	1.40%
Zions Bancorp.	ZION	5.30B	22.03	1.03	2.67	0.55%
Allergan Inc.	AGN	26.03B	22.26	4.55	4.44	0.23%

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

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 Between August 19 - 25, 2013. In total, 95 stocks go ex dividend - of which 30 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.93%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.88B	16.87	9.55	4.29	5.40%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.92B	10.26	1.08	1.82	4.77%
Thomson Reuters Corporation	TRI	28.88B	29.00	1.73	2.24	3.74%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	204.96B	13.37	1.18	3.87	3.61%
CA Technologies	CA	13.75B	13.28	2.44	2.97	3.27%
Johnson & Johnson	JNJ	251.10B	19.86	3.61	3.59	2.95%
Intercontinental Hotels Group	IHG	10.16B	15.87	32.96	5.54	2.84%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.39B	19.19	1.76	3.28	2.81%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	28.30B	18.92	1.22	1.85	2.74%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.64B	19.81	1.27	1.93	2.62%
Applied Materials Inc.	AMAT	18.79B	-	2.73	2.49	2.56%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.04B	16.10	2.67	0.60	2.51%
Marathon Petroleum	MPC	22.54B	7.11	1.88	0.25	2.40%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.16B	8.41	2.06	1.11	2.31%
Symantec Corporation	SYMC	18.29B	24.75	3.33	2.63	2.29%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.43	1.28	1.48	2.22%
Archer Daniels Midland	ADM	24.70B	20.36	1.30	0.27	2.04%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.31B	29.74	19.15	3.12	2.04%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.07B	22.72	-	1.61	2.03%
Cummins Inc.	CMI	23.46B	16.64	3.50	1.39	2.00%

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19 Cheap Dividend Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats with low forward Price-to-earnings originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Everybody talks about Dividend Aristocrats when discussing the best dividend growth stocks. Those companies have raised their dividend payments over a period of more than 25 years in a row and being selected by the credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s. The index has only 54 constituents. Normally, Dividend Aristocrats are highly valuated because of their high quality and low risk business models.

If you pay a big premium on your asset, you will not get a good return in the end. It’s very simple. All you need to do is to scout for attractive bargains at the capital market.

Today I would like to screen the Dividend Aristocrats Index by the cheapest companies in terms of forward P/E. Only 19 stocks have a current forward P/E ratio below 15. Some of them have bigger amounts of debt and others are slow growing. However, nearly 70 percent of the results have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

All members of the Dividend Aristocrats Index generated a positive year-to-date performance. It’s also a sign for the quality of the index. In average, they have a stock price performance of 16.03 percent. 1.02 percent points better than the broader S&P 500.

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