3 Potential Dividend Champions With High Yields And 10 Additional To Consider

Today I've created a small list of stocks with high dividend yields (over five percent) that are close to become a Dividend Champion in the upcoming years. Those stocks have raised dividends over more than 25 years in a row.

Dividend Growth is King

When you read my blog for a longer time, you should know that dividend growth is the key of a successful dividend investing.

In a non-performing market, dividends contribute 100 percent to the total performance or they can reduce their losses.

In my view, dividends are good enough to generate a solid cash income when the market suffers.

Over the past five years, this strategy failed because of the high intention of the Federal Reserve to reduce the unemployment via money printing. As a result, stock markets more than doubled in the most countries of the world and equities got very expensive.

Dividend yields of the best dividend paying stocks declined also by a few percentage points and investors often don't get a compensation for inflation now.

What we need are higher yielding stocks, but those are also more risky and sometimes overloaded with debt.

I've attached a list of the highest yielding potential dividend Champions. Only 13 companies with a consecutive dividend growth history of 10 to 25 years have a current dividend yield above the 5 percent ratio.

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These 42 Stocks Planning To Pay More Dividends

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Last week, around 42 companies announced a high dividend. I published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 15.51 percent.

It’s always good to see how the dividend growth strategy works. Some of the dividend growers have raised their payments forty times and more. The biggest names come from the oil and gas sector. Eni and Total are the two biggest stocks followed by the British spirit maker Diageo.

Five of the results have a double-digit dividend yield and seven yielding above five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend more than half, 26 in total, of the dividend growth stocks.

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Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest YTD Performance And Which Are Still Cheap

Basic material dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material stock category were the real losing sector this year. Stocks from the sector are down 2.6 percent this year while the best performing sector, healthcare stocks, gained 24.3 percent.

But not all basic materials are loser. There are stocks that doubled its price since the beginning of this year. Others are up 50 percent. Below, you can find a small list of the 20 top basic material stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 300 million and those without a dividend.

The 20 top dividend paying results gained from 44.58 percent to 65.14 percent. Three of the results have a market cap below a billion and additional seven are valuated between one or two billion. Small and mid-cap stocks are the main performance driver of the sector. Despite the strong stock price hikes, fourteen companies still have a buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 14, 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 May 14, 2013. In total, 29 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 10 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.25%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Portugal Telecom SGPS SA	PT	4.71B	16.41	1.49	0.55	13.52%
Buckeye Partners LP	BPL	7.09B	28.93	2.78	1.63	6.18%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	102.55B	17.35	2.20	2.78	5.99%
Healthcare Realty Trust Inc.	HR	2.69B	270.18	2.34	8.32	4.04%
Duke Realty Corp.	DRE	5.91B	-	1.99	5.31	3.70%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.37B	24.96	2.37	1.34	3.43%
American Campus Communities	ACC	4.72B	78.95	1.79	8.57	3.00%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	273.00B	16.85	3.56	3.59	2.81%
Archer Daniels Midland Company	ADM	22.45B	18.12	1.18	0.25	2.23%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.32B	15.40	1.33	1.50	1.98%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	25.13B	7.45	2.11	0.29	1.81%
Amgen Inc.	AMGN	80.04B	18.06	4.10	4.59	1.76%
Franco-Nevada Corporation	FNV	6.25B	60.03	1.99	14.65	1.69%
Columbia Sportswear Company	COLM	2.04B	19.20	1.74	1.21	1.48%
The TJX Companies, Inc.	TJX	36.73B	19.98	10.07	1.42	1.14%
Gildan Activewear Inc.	GIL	5.13B	18.75	3.38	2.44	0.85%
Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation	COG	14.09B	90.32	6.62	10.79	0.12%

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51 Shares With A Rising Dividend, Announced Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. I’ve created a screen for my dividend yield hunters about the stocks with a dividend hike from last week. The list shows a full compilation of all dividend growers of the recent week. 51 companies are on the list and eleven of them have a high yield; 35 are currently recommended to buy.

The average growth slows a bit and hits some of the lowest levels this year. The average dividend growth last week was at 16.65 percent.

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