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 10, 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 09, 2013. In total, 15 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 5 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.05%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
MFA Financial, Inc.	MFA	2.93B	10.10	0.90	5.88	10.76%
RAIT Financial Trust	RAS	449.70M	-	0.59	1.83	6.98%
Kayne Anderson Energy Development	KED	271.27M	11.04	1.10	25.12	6.81%
Ennis Inc.	EBF	478.06M	16.25	1.29	0.90	3.81%
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.	POT	33.34B	15.73	3.19	4.03	3.63%
Bank of Kentucky Financial Corp.	BKYF	216.44M	12.37	1.25	3.69	2.35%
Center Bancorp Inc.	CNBC	222.33M	12.36	1.45	3.97	2.21%
Northeast Community Bancorp, Inc.	NECB	77.44M	-	0.74	3.93	1.91%
Yum! Brands, Inc.	YUM	32.98B	23.01	14.38	2.46	1.85%
AZZ Incorporated	AZZ	910.08M	15.47	2.63	1.45	1.57%
Methode Electronics Inc.	MEI	676.32M	16.90	2.34	1.30	1.55%
Oracle Corporation	ORCL	148.16B	14.00	3.32	3.98	1.52%
Morningstar Inc.	MORN	3.69B	34.13	5.00	5.54	0.63%
Roper Industries Inc.	ROP	12.55B	25.33	3.32	4.16	0.52%
Advent Software, Inc.	ADVS	1.81B	53.40	5.55	4.96	-

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12 Stocks and Funds With Recent Dividend Growth

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The summer season is going to reach its high and the list of dividend growers shrinks to new lows. Last week, only 9 companies and three funds announced a dividend hike. Only four of them have a current buy or better rating. The average dividend growth of the top dividend growers from last week amounts to 13.29 percent.

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