14 Top Dividend Growers From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Only 14 stocks raised their dividend payments within the recent week. Despite the low number of growth stocks, the quality is still available.

Big names are again on the list. The biggest player is Lockheed Martin. The military group announced to boost dividends by 15.7 percent. I love this stock that is so deeply integrated into the U.S. economy.

Five High-Yields are part of the latest dividend growth stocks but only three companies are currently valuated with a forward P/E of less than 15. Also three of fourteen shares are currently recommended to buy.

Basic material stocks as well as financial stocks are dominating the results – A fact that we’ve also seen over the recent weeks. For the financial sector it’s reasonable because of the abnormal dividend cuts in 2008 but basic or raw material stocks? It’s really hard to explain why these stocks hike dividends when the whole sector is under pressure due to falling prices in anticipation of a slowing Chinese economy.

We will see how it develops over the time. I’ve attached, like every week, the full list of the latest dividend growth stocks. You can also find attached the current price ratios in order to find and compare the cheapest stocks from the list.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On July 08, 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 05, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 6 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.38%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AT&T, Inc.	T	196.37B	27.83	2.23	1.55	5.05%
Verizon Communications Inc.	VZ	146.19B	127.52	4.39	1.25	4.04%
Darden Restaurants, Inc.	DRI	6.61B	16.28	3.21	0.77	3.92%
WGL Holdings Inc.	WGL	2.21B	14.13	1.61	0.91	3.92%
UDR, Inc.	UDR	6.48B	-	2.25	8.75	3.62%
General Mills, Inc.	GIS	31.74B	18.00	4.52	1.82	3.11%
CSG International, Inc.	CSGS	748.38M	14.56	2.29	0.99	2.58%
United Microelectronics	UMC	6.11B	15.13	0.88	1.56	2.48%
Brady Corp.	BRC	1.60B	33.39	1.54	1.35	2.45%
Industrias Bachoco S.A.B. de C.V.	IBA	1.73B	10.29	1.22	0.57	1.67%
Raven Industries Inc.	RAVN	1.10B	23.34	4.76	2.82	1.58%
Hingham Institution for Savings	HIFS	145.10M	10.95	1.52	2.98	1.52%
Gap Inc.	GPS	19.90B	16.69	6.30	1.25	1.40%
Lincoln National Corp.	LNC	9.99B	8.16	0.67	0.86	1.30%
Ethan Allen Interiors Inc.	ETH	838.93M	26.91	2.55	1.15	1.24%
Intuit Inc.	INTU	18.53B	23.45	5.19	4.17	1.09%
InterDigital, Inc.	IDCC	1.56B	6.48	3.09	2.44	1.05%
FEI Company	FEIC	2.82B	25.97	3.31	3.15	0.66%
Lennar Corp.	LEN	6.72B	19.11	1.92	1.38	0.45%

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