27 Stocks With Bigger Dividends (Full Compilation)

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 27 companies increased their dividends within the recent week. You can find the full list attached and some of my favorites in the article below.

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12 Dividend Income Growth Stocks Below Book Value

Dividend growth stocks below book value originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. How would it be if you purchase a dollar for 50 cents? I believe it would a great deal but who gives you values for less than the price you pay?

For sure, nobody will gift you something on the market and there is definitely no free lunch. That’s a major rule I’ve learned from my years as a professional investor. But sometimes these are good companies with price to book ratios below the current market valuation. Theoretically, you get more values for each dollar but does it helps you if the corporate produces losses and decreases the book value year for year? I don’t think so. But the answer is always hidden.

Today I would like to present you dividend growth stocks that have hiked their payments uninterrupted over more than five years and have a price-to-book ratio below one at the same time. The financial industry is one of the biggest contributors to the screening results. Are there real values for investors?

Only 12 corporate stocks in total fulfilled these two criteria of which four yield over three percent and six of them have a current buy or better rating.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 11, 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, 258 stocks go ex dividend - of which 80 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.49%. 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
Valley National Bancorp	VLY	2.04B	14.45	1.34	3.22	6.34%
Digital Realty Trust Inc.	DLR	6.76B	36.58	2.37	4.78	5.92%
Golar LNG Ltd.	GLNG	3.06B	3.25	1.59	10.81	4.73%
Leggett & Platt	LEG	4.41B	17.58	3.09	1.18	3.97%
Validus Holdings, Ltd.	VR	3.65B	10.53	1.01	1.73	3.39%
Domtar Corporation	UFS	2.20B	28.60	0.83	0.41	3.34%
BRE Properties Inc.	BRE	3.88B	43.05	2.28	9.67	3.14%
Packaging Corp. of America	PKG	5.24B	23.44	4.99	1.74	2.94%
GATX Corp.	GMT	2.19B	15.33	1.80	1.72	2.63%
The Hanover Insurance Group	THG	2.23B	21.95	0.89	0.47	2.60%
XL Group plc	XL	8.75B	10.35	0.88	1.17	1.85%
Airgas Inc.	ARG	7.72B	24.30	4.78	1.55	1.82%
Worthington Industries, Inc.	WOR	2.36B	17.60	2.84	0.90	1.79%
First Horizon National	FHN	2.71B	18.54	1.26	3.53	1.77%
Nasdaq OMX Group Inc.	NDAQ	5.10B	17.13	0.87	1.67	1.70%
URS Corporation	URS	3.74B	11.92	1.04	0.32	1.66%
Comerica Incorporated	CMA	7.55B	15.01	1.09	4.18	1.65%
Albemarle Corp.	ALB	5.23B	17.52	3.86	1.99	1.54%
Service Corp. International	SCI	3.87B	25.03	2.76	1.56	1.53%
Alcoa, Inc.	AA	8.64B	80.80	0.68	0.37	1.49%

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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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