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 July 29, 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 July 29, 2013. In total, 52 stocks go ex dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.07%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.50B	10.93	0.98	4.88	11.96%
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners	KMP	32.05B	39.84	3.60	3.39	6.10%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.43B	21.00	1.67	7.40	6.09%
Baytex Energy Corp.	BTE	5.19B	23.66	4.25	5.59	5.93%
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.	EPB	9.49B	20.33	874.40	6.31	5.67%
Omega Healthcare Investors	OHI	3.75B	27.48	3.39	10.20	5.53%
National Retail Properties, Inc.	NNN	4.10B	34.37	1.90	11.81	4.38%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	55.54B	22.50	4.00	1.30	4.32%
Brookfield Office Properties CA	BOXC	2.36B	-	2.74	4.47	4.31%
Vermilion Energy Inc.	VET	5.42B	29.60	3.63	5.16	4.26%
Kinder Morgan, Inc.	KMI	40.27B	41.80	2.95	3.25	3.91%
Western Gas Partners LP	WES	6.41B	87.36	3.79	7.39	3.53%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.93B	16.52	1.88	1.86	3.51%
NiSource Inc.	NI	9.78B	22.14	1.72	1.88	3.18%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	43.45B	24.53	3.97	3.45	2.85%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	15.48B	19.95	2.94	1.00	2.71%
Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc.	SUSQ	2.57B	16.21	0.97	3.57	2.32%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	4.80B	23.27	7.37	3.81	1.95%
East West Bancorp, Inc.	EWBC	4.30B	15.72	1.91	4.20	1.92%
Western Gas Equity Partners, LP	WGP	8.73B	137.59	12.79	10.22	1.80%

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20 Most Profitable Dividend Champions

Dividend Champions with highest operating margin originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I made a screen of the most profitable stocks from the Dividend Aristocrats index. I thought that it makes sense to know what kind of stocks have the highest degree of profitability. The results were impressive and some of my readers liked the idea.

Today I like to screen my Dividend Champions database by the most profitable stocks, measured by the operating margin. Because of the higher amount of screening members – the Dividend Champions list is nearly twice as big as the Dividend Aristocrats index; the results show some fresh ideas.

The 20 top stocks have a margin between 24.8 and 45.7 percent. Eleven of them are currently recommended to buy.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On April 26, 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 April 26, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.46%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Prospect Capital Corporation	PSEC	2.47B	7.87	1.01	5.06	12.07%
Entertainment Properties Trust	EPR	2.60B	24.77	1.78	8.07	5.69%
Chatham Lodging Trust	CLDT	321.71M	-	1.24	3.20	4.59%
Enterprise Products Partners LP	EPD	56.16B	22.74	4.24	1.32	4.35%
Northwest Natural Gas Company	NWN	1.22B	20.34	1.66	1.67	4.03%
Brookfield Office Properties Canada	BOXC	2.56B	-	3.00	4.88	3.96%
Alliant Energy Corporation	LNT	5.81B	17.88	1.74	1.88	3.59%
Texas Instruments Inc.	TXN	39.78B	23.85	3.64	3.10	3.11%
NiSource Inc.	NI	9.71B	22.40	1.74	1.92	3.08%
ConAgra Foods, Inc.	CAG	14.79B	28.16	2.94	1.03	2.82%
Tanger Factory Outlet Centers	SKT	3.50B	66.12	7.22	9.79	2.43%
Eaton Vance Corp.	EV	4.72B	23.06	8.20	3.83	2.04%
Scholastic Corporation	SCHL	849.50M	12.50	1.00	0.43	1.88%
ASML Holding NV	ASML	30.18B	19.35	4.24	5.29	0.82%

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20 Dividend Champions With Highest 10-Year Dividend Growth Rates

Dividend Champions with fastest 10 year dividend growth originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Dividend Champions are popular because of their long payment history. They increased dividend payments each year over a period of more than 25 years without an interruption.

In my view it’s for every high-quality stock possible to manage a 50 year dividend growth. The only requirement is a stable growing business with a high degree of self-financing. So, the only big difference between the longest dividend growers is the rate of the dividend growth. There are fast growing stocks and slow hikers. Which should you buy?

If you want to make money with dividend growth stocks, you need fast growth but it makes only sense to purchase them for an acceptable price. What return will you make when you pay a price that is 100 times of the expected earnings?

Today, I like to screen the investment category “Dividend Champions” by stocks with the highest rate of dividend growth over the recent 10 years. Linked is a full list of the top 20 champs with a double-digit dividend growth. Fourteen of the results have a current buy or better rating.

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