Dividend Growth Alert: 38 Stocks With Higher Dividends

Within the recent week, 38 companies have raised their dividend distributions - A good number in my view. On the list are again higher capitalized stocks with a solid track record. I talk about General Electric or 3M.

You can find, like each week, a detailed overview about the biggest stocks below. In addition, there is a full list of all stocks and funds attached.

My favorite Lage Cap dividend grower with recent dividend hikes are...

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 21, 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, 94 stocks go ex dividend - of which 33 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.09%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pembina Pipeline Corporation	PBA	9.76B	30.58	2.05	2.13	5.03%
Transocean Ltd.	RIG	16.75B	10.16	1.07	1.80	4.81%
HSBC Holdings plc	HBC	203.07B	13.25	1.17	3.84	3.65%
Prudential plc	PUK	47.13B	18.40	3.15	0.56	3.38%
Intercontinental Hotels Group plc	IHG	10.20B	15.93	33.08	5.56	2.83%
Carnival Corporation	CCL	27.81B	18.60	1.19	1.81	2.79%
Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers	RBA	2.04B	27.70	3.08	4.64	2.72%
Carnival plc	CUK	29.17B	19.50	1.25	1.90	2.66%
British American Tobacco plc	BTI	101.69B	16.68	9.44	4.25	2.57%
3M Co.	MMM	79.56B	18.12	4.45	2.63	2.20%
Hershey Co.	HSY	21.18B	29.56	19.03	3.10	2.05%
Limited Brands, Inc.	LTD	17.06B	22.71	-	1.61	2.03%
Snap-on Inc.	SNA	5.59B	17.14	2.97	1.85	1.58%
Equifax Inc.	EFX	7.52B	25.77	3.59	3.33	1.42%
Nu Skin Enterprises Inc.	NUS	4.97B	21.40	7.17	2.12	1.42%
Primerica, Inc.	PRI	2.17B	13.88	1.90	1.77	1.14%

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What Super Investors Like: 100 Most Bought Stocks By Investment Gurus

100 most bought stocks by investment professionals originally published on Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Super investors are such with billions in assets under management. If they jump on a stock, it’s possible that something changes with the company or even the stock price. Mostly it’s a good sign when a big investor expresses his trust to the company. The media notices the stock buy and other investors will follow.

Today I like to produce a little screen of the biggest stock buys from 49 super investors. I analyzed how often a stock were bought over the recent six months and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. All super gurus combined bought 647 stocks within the recent half year.

The number one stock above all guru stock buys was Microsoft. The company was bought by 18 investment gurus who discovered better future growth perspectives of the hidden software giant. Technology and financials are still the place to be.

72 stocks from the list pay dividends. Investment gurus don’t care about the dividend. They are more likely interested in long-term capital gains. Only 38 percent of the top 100 stocks yielding above 2 percent.

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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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Diversified Industrial Technology Company 3M Completes The Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio

Despite the small correction within the financial markets, the asset prices for high-quality dividend growth stocks are still high. We need a bigger correction to get back to normal prices but the current forces are too strength. It’s a process of valuation adjustments – stock yields come down to bond yields.

Last Friday, I put 15 shares of the industrial conglomerate into the Dividend Yield Passive Income (DYPI) Portfolio. I bought the company at 110.27 which resulted into a total purchase amount of $ 1,654.05. Below is a graph of the latest earnings and dividend developments from the recent five years.

Earnings and Dividends of MMM 3M

3M Company is a diversified technology company with a presence in the industrial and transportation; health care; consumer and office; safety, security and protection services; display and graphics, and electro and communications businesses. 3M manages its operations in six business segments: Industrial and Transportation; Health Care; Consumer and Office; Safety, Security and Protection Services; Display and Graphics, and Electro and Communications. 

MMM is also not cheap but compared to other dividend champions lower valuated. The current P/E amounts to 17.42 while the forward P/E is calculated at 15.02. Investors get a yield of 2.30%.

Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio (Click to enlarge)

Latest Portfolio Transactions (Click to enlarge)

The 3M position is the eleventh biggest position within the DYPI-Portfolio. The portfolio has now 34 constituents and was funded on October 04, 2012. I plan to purchase each week one stake at cost between $1 to $2k. As a result, the cash reduced from $100k to $51. It’s a strategy of slow purchase and if the markets go further strong up, I need to close my acquisition process and rest on cash. The current valuation is too high to get good long-term yields.

What happened with my current holdings? They realized a gain of 10.24 percent. Because of the high cash amount (around 50 percent of the portfolio is still not invested), the portfolio performance life-to-date amounts to 5.46%.

The new stake will give me around $37 bucks per year in additional dividend income. The full year estimated passive dividend income is now at $1,718.

Here is the income perspective of the portfolio:

Sym	Name	P/E Ratio	Dividend Yield		Buy	# Shrs	Income	Value
TRI	Thomson Reuters C	16.66	3.68		28.90	50	$64.50	$1,761.50
LMT	Lockheed Martin C	12.28	4.05		92.72	20	$86.00	$2,141.20
INTC	Intel Corporation	12.02	3.68		21.27	50	$44.25	$1,196.15
MCD	McDonald's Corpor	18.74	2.91		87.33	15	$44.10	$1,504.35
WU	Western Union Com	9.9	2.73		11.95	100	$45.00	$1,645.00
PM	Philip Morris Int	18.13	3.56		85.42	20	$67.18	$1,882.40
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	23.69	2.86		69.19	20	$49.80	$1,736.40
MO	Altria Group Inc	17.06	4.69		33.48	40	$69.20	$1,483.60
SYY	Sysco Corporation	20.09	3.18		31.65	40	$44.00	$1,392.80
DRI	Darden Restaurant	16.23	3.76		46.66	30	$60.00	$1,584.90
CA	CA Inc.	13.21	3.66		21.86	50	$50.00	$1,370.00
PG	Procter & Gamble	17.63	2.91		68.72	25	$57.20	$2,047.00
KRFT	Kraft Foods Group	21.14	3.51		44.41	40	$80.00	$2,280.40
MAT	Mattel Inc.	19.72	2.84		36.45	40	$51.60	$1,825.20
PEP	Pepsico Inc. Com	21.04	2.62		70.88	20	$43.00	$1,651.60
KMB	Kimberly-Clark Co	22.31	2.95		86.82	15	$45.45	$1,552.65
COP	ConocoPhillips Co	10.19	4.2		61.06	20	$52.80	$1,250.60
GIS	General Mills In	17.89	2.7		42.13	30	$39.60	$1,469.40
UL	Unilever PLC Comm	21.71	2.96		39.65	35	$44.91	$1,513.05
NSRGY	NESTLE SA REG SHR	19.11	3.2		68.69	30	$65.31	$2,049.00
GE	General Electric	17.53	3.04		23.39	65	$46.80	$1,529.45
ADP	Automatic Data Pr	23.79	2.37		61.65	25	$41.50	$1,746.25
K	Kellogg Company C	25.42	2.71		61.52	25	$43.75	$1,611.25
KO	Coca-Cola Company	21.94	2.49		38.83	40	$41.80	$1,689.60
RTN	Raytheon Company	11.71	3.07		57.04	20	$41.00	$1,334.60
RCI	Rogers Communicat	13.65	3.46		51.06	30	$48.69	$1,390.50
GPC	Genuine Parts Com	19.79	2.47		77.06	20	$40.44	$1,628.00
TSCDY	TESCO PLC SPONS A	N/A	4.05		17.98	70	$49.63	$1,212.40
APD	Air Products and	16.87	2.79		85.71	15	$39.45	$1,408.95
GSK	GlaxoSmithKline P	19.27	4.45		52.16	30	$70.38	$1,589.10
WMT	Wal-Mart Stores	15.04	2.27		79.25	20	$34.72	$1,546.20
BTI	British American	17.81	3.67		114.6	13	$53.82	$1,466.53
CHL	China Mobile Limi	10.5	1.98		55.32	25	$26.33	$1,330.50
mmm	3M Company Common	17.41	2.22		110.27	15	$36.75	$1,654.05
							$1,718.95	$54,474.58
							Average Yield	3.16%
							Yield On Cost	3.49%

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