24 Stocks With Fresh Dividend Hikes

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 24 companies increased its dividends within the recent week. Compared to 15 stocks from the previous week, it’s a small improvement but not the big numbers of 50 or more. The average dividend growth amounts to 32.07 percent.

Several recent dividend growth stocks have a market capitalization over $10 billion. Those are big names like McDonald’s, or Microsoft. The technology and software giant also announced to buy back $40 billion in own shares. That’s around 14 percent of the current market value.

I’ve attached a list for you of all dividend growers from the past week. You can also find there a list of the current valuations of the stocks. Half of the results still have a low forward P/E below 15 and eleven received a buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

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20 Of The Safest Dividend Challengers On The Market

Dividend Challengers with lowest beta ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". I love high-quality dividend growth stocks and the stocks with the longest history of consecutive payments are definitely Dividend Kings and Dividend Champions. But the big disadvantage of them is that they are also highly priced.

You cannot make a greater return with stocks that have a P/E ratio of 22 and grows only at 5 percent. You need real bargains to make big profit with your asset.

This problem can be solved when you look into the dividend potentials. Those stocks haven’t yet reached a longer dividend payment history but they can become a great Dividend Champion within the next years. The price ratios are also lower for some companies and you have a better choice to find good investments because out there are around 160 stocks with five or more years of consecutive dividend payments and 207 with a payment between 10 to 25 years.

Today I like to screen the third class of dividend growth stocks by the safest alternatives. The 20 safest dividend growth stocks have a beta ratio between 0.18 and 0.55. All three top picks come from the oil & gas pipeline industry, a branch with very stable sales and future growth perspectives due to the shale gas boom in the United States.

From the 20 safest Dividend Challengers have nine a current buy or better rating.

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100 Stocks At All-Time-Highs

List of stocks at All-Time-Highs originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". We are still in a bull market and have seen a small correction since 5/21. The trend is still intact which could be also checked by the number of stocks at All-Time-Highs. They came back recently to a big number.

Below is a list of the 100 best performing stocks at All-Time-Highs. The biggest players on the list are 3M, Danaher, Precision Castparts or Illinois Tool Works. Half of the results pay dividends and 81 have a current buy or better rating.

It’s good to see how fast some stocks recover, a very healthy sign from the market. But the risk increases with every percentage point. You need to take care about the valuation of the stocks. Only 18 percent of the top 100 companies at All-Time-Highs are valuated with a P/E below 15.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On May 13, 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 13, 2013. In total, 61 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 26 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.70%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc.	ARR	2.39B	8.08	0.88	6.48	13.17%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.35B	13.80	2.60	2.06	4.34%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	18.24B	17.40	1.53	1.48	3.95%
Vectren Corporation	VVC	3.03B	19.15	1.95	1.30	3.86%
ALLETE, Inc.	ALE	2.06B	20.12	1.70	2.15	3.68%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	30.55B	31.88	1.43	1.23	3.47%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	50.35B	21.88	4.11	1.46	3.29%
Xilinx Inc.	XLNX	10.09B	21.67	3.41	4.65	2.59%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	39.08B	61.68	3.71	1.56	2.59%
Southwest Gas Corporation	SWX	2.37B	18.02	1.80	1.23	2.58%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.95B	-	1.22	1.63	2.34%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.78B	15.41	2.72	0.61	2.06%
IAC/InterActiveCorp.	IACI	4.35B	26.89	2.50	1.55	1.95%
TIM Participacoes S.A.	TSU	9.91B	13.75	1.44	1.06	1.85%
The Kroger Co.	KR	18.09B	12.54	4.25	0.19	1.73%
Teleflex Incorporated	TFX	3.26B	25.66	1.93	2.06	1.72%
Jabil Circuit Inc.	JBL	3.92B	10.69	1.80	0.22	1.65%
Delphi Automotive PLC	DLPH	14.41B	14.63	6.01	0.93	1.48%
TCF Financial Corporation	TCB	2.46B	26.82	1.31	2.82	1.33%
Pool Corp.	POOL	2.40B	30.46	8.37	1.22	1.24%

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20 Cheapest Dividend Paying Stocks From The Services Sector

Dividend stocks from the services sector with very low forward P/E ratios originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to resume my monthly screen series of the cheapest dividend stocks. Now, the services sector is subject of my analysis. A high dividend is not the solution for a return. The valuation also matters.

Because of the high amount of results, I observed only large cap stocks. The top 20 resultsare valuated between 9.75 and 13.41. Two of the results have a yield over three percent and 14 are currently recommended to buy.

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