6 Top Growth Heros With Potential To Lift Future Dividends

Only a growing dividend is a good dividend. That was one of my major rules when I started my dividend growth investing career. Since then, I quadrupled my net worth, only via dividend stock trading. That's a great feeling to see that it really works, but we must also consider that the markets are irrational valuated.

Today, I would like to share a new screen about dividend stocks that have beaten the market by sales and earnings growth numbers in the past. 

Not enough, they also have low debt, dividend payout ratios. Both are two major criteria to evaluate future dividend growth. These are the criteria in detail:

- Market cap is greater than USD 100 million

- Dividend yield is greater than 2%

- The payout ratio is less than 100%

- Total debt to equity is less than 1.00

- Average annual earnings growth for the past five years is greater than 25%

- Average annual sales growth for the past five years is greater than 10%

Six companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria of which four have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On October 17, 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.

In total, 13 stocks go ex dividend - of which 2 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Dorchester Minerals LP	DMLP	745.40M	18.41	6.68	11.47	6.50%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.05B	9.56	1.59	10.19	6.39%
Caterpillar Inc.	CAT	55.73B	13.53	3.16	0.92	2.80%
McGrath Rentcorp	MGRC	887.90M	20.48	2.29	2.35	2.74%
RPM International Inc.	RPM	4.77B	29.26	3.96	1.14	2.44%
WD-40 Company	WDFC	1.01B	25.43	5.57	2.81	1.90%
Hormel Foods Corp.	HRL	11.27B	22.91	3.70	1.31	1.60%
CVS Caremark Corporation	CVS	72.47B	17.47	1.86	0.59	1.52%
NetApp, Inc.	NTAP	14.28B	28.46	3.55	2.23	1.47%
Home Federal Bancorp of Louisiana	HFBL	35.55M	12.89	0.85	2.69	1.43%
Graco Inc.	GGG	4.68B	25.11	8.36	4.40	1.31%
CR Bard Inc.	BCR	9.45B	56.41	6.05	3.17	0.71%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 18, 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.

In total, 57 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 17 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.94%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Apollo Investment Corporation	AINV	1.78B	13.95	0.97	5.90	9.56%
PennantPark Investment	PNNT	779.46M	8.62	1.12	6.07	9.55%
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.04B	9.52	1.59	10.14	6.42%
Douglas Dynamics, Inc.	PLOW	327.93M	87.53	2.20	2.42	5.58%
LTC Properties Inc.	LTC	1.22B	23.82	2.05	12.28	5.01%
Electro Rent Corp.	ELRC	435.33M	18.78	1.91	1.75	4.58%
Ramco-Gershenson Properties	RPT	928.02M	129.08	1.55	6.40	4.33%
Greif, Inc.	GEF	2.41B	18.47	1.98	0.56	3.31%
American Railcar Industries, Inc.	ARII	771.02M	9.63	1.93	1.06	2.77%
SeaWorld Entertainment, Inc.	SEAS	2.73B	91.06	4.37	1.90	2.58%
Republic Bancorp Inc.	RBCAA	565.27M	12.20	1.04	4.08	2.57%
Hudson Pacific Properties, Inc.	HPP	1.13B	-	1.31	6.21	2.48%
Las Vegas Sands Corp.	LVS	52.45B	27.92	6.99	4.25	2.20%
TriCo Bancshares	TCBK	336.43M	13.72	1.41	3.20	2.10%
The Chubb Corporation	CB	23.02B	12.53	1.48	1.66	1.99%
Hawkins Inc.	HWKN	395.94M	22.27	2.26	1.12	1.91%
Tiffany & Co.	TIF	10.09B	23.36	3.71	2.58	1.72%
Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.	HRC	2.17B	20.19	2.69	1.27	1.53%
Convergys Corporation	CVG	1.94B	18.47	1.45	0.96	1.29%
Brown Shoe Co. Inc.	BWS	927.44M	19.34	2.18	0.36	1.25%

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26 Stocks Raised Dividends Over The Past Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend growth matters and has significant influence to your asset strategy. A higher dividend in the future also lifts your passive income from stock investing. It’s a good method to boost your total return.

Out there are many studies, telling you that nearly half of the average return on the stock market is responsible to dividend payments. That’s a huge number in my view but what if we are trying to find the best dividend stocks, stocks that are better than the average? I think about companies that pay in ten years more dividends to you than you have ever paid for the whole investment.

I strongly believe that this strategy will deliver good returns. The only problem is to discover these growth stocks that are willing to give you huge amounts of money back.

However, one way to get some ideas of the greatest dividend growth stocks is to look at the current lists of dividend growers. On my blog I publish on a regular basis these lists.

Last week, 26 companies announced a higher dividend. I’ve published all stocks with dividend growth from the recent week in the attached dividend list for you. In average, stocks from the list of the latest dividend growth stocks have increased their dividend payments by 25.49 percent.

Five of the results have a high yield of more than five percent. Analysts and brokerage firms recommend 16 of the latest dividend growth stocks.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 19, 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 August 19, 2013. In total, 45 stocks go ex dividend - of which 12 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.23%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Main Street Capital Corporation	MAIN	1.01B	9.28	1.55	9.88	6.39%
Westpac Banking Corporation	WBK	88.48B	15.60	2.19	2.77	6.11%
Hawaiian Electric Industries Inc.	HE	2.58B	18.92	1.59	0.78	4.75%
Microchip Technology Inc.	MCHP	7.76B	63.56	3.97	4.59	3.60%
Invesco Ltd.	IVZ	14.42B	19.23	1.77	3.29	2.80%
Allegheny Technologies Inc.	ATI	2.95B	50.20	1.18	0.64	2.61%
Target Corp.	TGT	44.36B	16.22	2.68	0.61	2.49%
Autoliv, Inc.	ALV	7.90B	15.26	2.03	0.95	2.42%
Marathon Petroleum Corporation	MPC	22.76B	7.18	1.90	0.25	2.38%
AFLAC Inc.	AFL	28.09B	8.39	2.05	1.10	2.32%
Snyder's-Lance, Inc.	LNCE	1.92B	33.06	2.17	1.14	2.30%
Marathon Oil Corporation	MRO	24.60B	15.61	1.29	1.50	2.19%
Assured Guaranty Ltd.	AGO	4.12B	8.64	0.87	3.56	1.88%
Murphy Oil Corporation	MUR	13.20B	14.43	1.44	0.47	1.79%
DST Systems Inc.	DST	3.15B	11.10	2.70	1.20	1.67%
Littelfuse Inc.	LFUS	1.75B	23.40	2.81	2.54	1.12%
Employers Holdings, Inc.	EIG	849.54M	7.94	1.55	1.38	0.87%
Callaway Golf Co.	ELY	497.07M	-	1.40	0.62	0.57%

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