4 Great Dividend Growth Stocks With Several Break-Out Signals

Do you know the feeling of when you buy a stock and nothing happens over years? 

It's very disappointing to put money into a great stock for that you have done the right research and nothing happens because the market doesn’t discover the potential of your target company.

Timing is also important for stock investors. On the capital market, you can make 100 percent in only six months if you catch the right purchasing time and you can make the same performance over ten years. Both is possible but its definitely better to take the first option.

I'm personally a long-term growth investor and more focused on fundamentals than on technical indicators but those can help you to receive a better return.

Today I try to find some stocks that have risen over the short and mid-term. I used a 20 day to 200 day average to get some great stock ideas. These are my fundamental criteria:

Dividend yield over 2%.
Dividend growth rate over the past five years greater than 5%. 
The dividend payout is under 75%. 
The forward P/E is below 15. 
The PEG ratio is under 1.50. 
Total debt to equity under 0.40.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 06, 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, 50 stocks go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.70%. 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
Linn Energy, LLC	LINE	5.63B	-	1.33	3.08	12.77%
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	4.61B	-	1.09	1.03	5.83%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.08B	17.36	5.12	3.16	5.28%
PPL Corporation	PPL	18.12B	12.39	1.66	1.57	4.79%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	6.57B	13.79	1.46	1.46	4.32%
TELUS Corporation	TU	21.39B	17.54	3.01	2.01	3.93%
H&R Block, Inc.	HRB	7.55B	16.69	5.97	2.60	2.89%
Occidental Petroleum	OXY	72.26B	16.38	1.73	2.99	2.85%
Harris Corp.	HRS	6.28B	14.06	4.02	1.23	2.54%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	30.47B	10.47	1.22	1.17	2.47%
CME Group Inc.	CME	24.48B	26.30	1.12	8.50	2.44%
Best Buy Co. Inc.	BBY	12.64B	-	3.51	0.30	1.83%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.99B	19.10	4.05	1.91	1.81%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	26.17B	9.51	1.07	0.39	1.72%
Avnet Inc.	AVT	5.44B	12.32	1.27	0.21	1.51%
UMB Financial Corporation	UMBF	2.38B	21.29	1.94	7.01	1.44%
W.R. Berkley Corporation	WRB	5.58B	11.64	1.32	0.91	0.97%
CBS Corporation	CBS	33.25B	19.64	3.46	2.30	0.88%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	3.16B	17.89	0.69	0.72	0.84%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.54B	23.65	2.44	2.35	0.80%

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20 Cheap Large Cap Dividend Challengers With Double-Digit Earnings Growth

Large capitalized Dividend Challengers with strong growth at a low valuation originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 

If you have read my blog for a longer time, you would have noticed that I often write about dividend growth stocks and dividends in general. One dividend growth category is the Dividend Challengers category. Those stocks have raised their dividend cash payments to shareholders over a period of more than 5 consecutive years but less than 10 years in a row.

Because of the rising market valuation, I wanted to know which of the Dividend Challengers are still fair or even cheap priced compared to its growth forecasts by analysts. 

I selected all stocks from the dividend growth category with a market cap over $10 billion and a low forward P/E below 15. In addition, the expected earnings per share growth should be above 5 percent yearly. Exactly 20 companies fulfilled these criteria.

14 of the results have a current buy or better rating and five stocks yielding over the three percent mark.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On June 06, 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 June 06, 2013. In total, 35 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 16 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 2.97%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Pepco Holdings, Inc.	POM	5.16B	-	1.21	1.11	5.21%
Reynolds American Inc.	RAI	26.75B	18.17	5.23	3.24	5.15%
PPL Corporation	PPL	17.31B	12.75	1.65	1.63	4.95%
SCANA Corp.	SCG	7.00B	15.07	1.57	1.60	4.03%
TELUS Corporation	TU	11.29B	8.88	1.41	1.05	3.81%
Ensco plc	ESV	14.11B	11.22	1.17	3.19	3.30%
Occidental Petroleum Corp.	OXY	75.94B	17.23	1.86	3.18	2.72%
CME Group Inc.	CME	23.10B	26.60	1.07	8.08	2.60%
The Travelers Companies, Inc.	TRV	31.55B	12.72	1.23	1.23	2.39%
Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.	BAH	2.43B	12.30	11.50	0.42	2.24%
First American Financial Corp.	FAF	2.51B	8.28	1.05	0.53	2.07%
WellPoint Inc.	WLP	23.26B	9.12	0.96	0.36	1.94%
Lancaster Colony Corporation	LANC	2.27B	20.74	4.71	1.94	1.92%
V.F. Corporation	VFC	20.44B	18.28	4.01	1.87	1.86%
CBS Corporation	CBS	30.13B	18.46	3.21	2.12	0.98%
CNO Financial Group, Inc.	CNO	2.74B	17.61	0.55	0.63	0.97%
Mentor Graphics Corp.	MENT	2.15B	16.45	2.11	1.97	0.94%
Kansas City Southern	KSU	11.99B	29.58	3.77	5.34	0.79%

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