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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The Latest Stock Buys And Sells From Bill Gates

Bill Gates and his latest stock buys and sells originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Today I would like to introduce you the latest stock buys and sells from Bill Gates.

Bill Gates is not only a self made billionaire who got his wealth from Microsoft. He is a much more diversified guy as you might think. A few years earlier, Bill Gates founded the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which has a current portfolio value of around USD 17.8 billion.

The trust owns only 21 stocks of which around half of the value comes from the incurance company led by Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway. 

Financial service is a big theme for Bill Gates. Other important industries he prefers are defensive consumer stocks and industrials. All three sectors combined represent around 80.7 percent of Bill Gates's full asset allocation.

Bill Gates has a similar investment style like his friend Warren Buffett. He is a passive long-term investor but with some different ideas and views about stocks and earnings growth. Why should it be otherwise? He’s a old tech guy.

Last Quarter, Bill Gates made only one stock purchase and sold six companies. Five of them were closed completely. The biggest impact had the reduction of the current Berkshire stake which impacted his portfolio by 3.59 percent.

Five of his seven portfolio moves pay dividends.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 19, 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 19, 2013. In total, 45 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	9.28	1.55	9.88	6.39%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	88.48B	15.60	2.19	2.77	6.11%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.58B	18.92	1.59	0.78	4.75%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.76B	63.56	3.97	4.59	3.60%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.42B	19.23	1.77	3.29	2.80%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	2.95B	50.20	1.18	0.64	2.61%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.36B	16.22	2.68	0.61	2.49%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.90B	15.26	2.03	0.95	2.42%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	22.76B	7.18	1.90	0.25	2.38%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.09B	8.39	2.05	1.10	2.32%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.92B	33.06	2.17	1.14	2.30%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.60B	15.61	1.29	1.50	2.19%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.12B	8.64	0.87	3.56	1.88%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	13.20B	14.43	1.44	0.47	1.79%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	3.15B	11.10	2.70	1.20	1.67%
Littelfuse Inc.	LFUS	1.75B	23.40	2.81	2.54	1.12%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	849.54M	7.94	1.55	1.38	0.87%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	497.07M	-	1.40	0.62	0.57%

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Bill Gates’ Best Yielding Dividend Stocks | Biggest Bets Of The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and their highest yielding dividend stock buys originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Bill Gates is a self-made billionaire and started to manage his investments by himself. 

He created the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust which has assets of USD 18.1 billion under management. The money is distributed on 26 stocks. Bill’s approach is similar to the investment philosophy of Warren Buffett but he has his own investment style and invested money into different stock holdings.

Within the recent quarter, Bill bought no new stocks. Today I like to show you the latest 20 stock picks and the biggest positions of the trust. Bill is a great believer of Warren Buffett and he holds around USD 8.4 billion in Berkshire Hathaway shares. Additional billion stakes are Coca-Cola and Coca-Cola FEMSA.

Of his 20 latest transactions are 16 unique and twelve of them pay dividends.

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20 Cheapest Consumer Dividend Stocks

Consumer dividend stocks with cheap price ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". 

I love consumer dividend stocks. Nearly 60 percent of my own stock allocation have a relationship to the sector. For sure they also had a very low performance compared to other stocks but they give me stability and trust to invest bigger amounts of money into the stock markt.

A few years before, I purchased consumer stocks for an average yield of 3.5 percent. Today the sector has a yield of 2.78 percent despite the fact that most of the consumer stocks raised year over year their dividends. Consumer stocks getting more and more expensive and the only core reason for this development is the expansive monetary policy.

Today I like to go forward with my monthly screens of the cheapest dividend stocks measured by the lowest forward P/E. The 20 cheapest stocks with a higher market capitalization are valuated between 7.8 and 12.5. Only one High-Yield is part of the results. Nearly all companies, 17 in total, are currently recommended to buy.

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