30 Top Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 30 companies announced a dividend hike within the recent week. Only six of them are large capitalized stocks and five are really cheap in terms of a low forward P/E.

It’s in line with our recognition of rising stock market multiples. Real cheap stocks are very rare. The most dangerous item are growth expectations. Growth let earnings multiples grow but you need low multiples with a solid growing business to make a good return.

The biggest results are Itau Unibanco, Goldman Sachs and Abbott Laboratories as well.

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Latest Dividend Growth Alert: Hershey and Motorola Solutions

Seventeen companies announced yesterday to raise its dividends. The biggest company below the latest dividend growth stocks is the chocolate manufacturer Hershey. HSY announced to boost dividends by 15.48 percent. The current yield amounts to 2.07 percent. Additional large capitalized stocks are Motorola Solutions with a 19.23 percent hike, Hartford Financial Services (50 percent hike), Stanley Black & Decker (2.4 percent dividend hike) as well as the gas utility ONEOK. OKE announced a 5.56 percent higher dividend.

The highest yielding stock is the independent oil & gas company Atlas Resource Partners with 9.34 percent dividend yield. 

These are the latest dividend growth stocks:

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Atlas Energy	3.37	41.94%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/19/2013
Atlas Resource Ptrs	9.89	5.88%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/14/2013
Cheesecake Factory	1.37	16.67%	Quarterly	8/5/2013	8/20/2013
Community Trust Bancorp	3.10	1.59%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/1/2013
Eastern Co	2.70	10.00%	Quarterly	8/19/2013	9/16/2013
Hartford Fincl Svcs	1.91	50.00%	Quarterly	8/29/2013	10/1/2013
Hershey	2.07	15.48%	Quarterly	8/21/2013	9/13/2013
Interface Inc.	0.63	20.00%	Quarterly	8/7/2013	8/23/2013
MarkWest	4.97	1.20%	Quarterly	8/2/2013	8/14/2013
Motorola Solutions	2.29	19.23%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/15/2013
Oneok Inc	2.83	5.56%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/15/2013
PulteGroup	1.21	25.00%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/12/2013
Sotherly Hotels Inc.	3.58	14.29%	Quarterly	9/11/2013	10/11/2013
Spectra Engy Ptnr	4.49	1.50%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
Stanley Black&Decker	2.42	2.04%	Quarterly	9/4/2013	9/17/2013
TAL Intl Grp	6.61	3.03%	Quarterly	8/29/2013	9/24/2013
TC PipeLines LP	6.45	3.85%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013

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Basic Material Dividend Stocks With Highest YTD Performance And Which Are Still Cheap

Basic material dividend stocks with highest performance year-to-date originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The basic material stock category were the real losing sector this year. Stocks from the sector are down 2.6 percent this year while the best performing sector, healthcare stocks, gained 24.3 percent.

But not all basic materials are loser. There are stocks that doubled its price since the beginning of this year. Others are up 50 percent. Below, you can find a small list of the 20 top basic material stocks. I excluded all companies with a market capitalization below USD 300 million and those without a dividend.

The 20 top dividend paying results gained from 44.58 percent to 65.14 percent. Three of the results have a market cap below a billion and additional seven are valuated between one or two billion. Small and mid-cap stocks are the main performance driver of the sector. Despite the strong stock price hikes, fourteen companies still have a buy or better rating.

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20 Dividend Challengers With Fastest Growing Dividends

Dividend Challengers with fastest growing dividend payments originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I screened Dividend Champs with the fastest rate of dividend growth. Mc Donald’s was my best yielding pick. I noticed that the top 20 stocks had a 10 year dividend growth performance of remarkable 10 to 30 percent yearly but for most of them, the performance slowed within the recent years.

It’s not possible of any company to raise dividends at a very high rate over a longer period. It’s also not possible to raise dividend payments with a gaining momentum. Every company that does this must reduce its growth speed over the time.

Today, I like to introduce some of the fastest growing dividend payers that have raised their distributions at least for five consecutive years but less than ten years. Here, the best results have grown their dividend payments over the recent five years with a rate of 90 to 30 percent. That’s definitely a higher growth figure but as I told, very growth rate will come down.

Below the top results of my screen are eleven stocks with a buy or better rating. Three of them are High-Yields.

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