5 Top Stocks With Over 25 Percent 1-Year Dividend Growth And Potential To Grow Further

I've recently published an article about stocks with the fastest short-term dividend growth on my blog long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The top yielding pick with a double-digit dividend growth was Philipp Morris.

I love tobacco stocks and my own portfolio has around 25 percent of its assets invested into cigarettes producing companies.

Today I would highlight some stocks with more than 25 percent short-term dividend growth.

Technology stocks are the most dominant stock category in my screen in terms of dividend growth potential. They have huge amounts of cash and most of the old tech players are very profitable. 

Over the past few years, companies like eBay, Cisco, Microsoft or even Apple have failed to create new innovative products to boost growth but they still sit on tons of cash. 

As a result, some of them started to pay back a part of the free and growing mountains of money to shareholders via stock repurchases and dividends. I'm happy to see what they do because they are so profitable and don't need all this money.

Another group of stocks with big dividend growth rates is coming from the basic material or energy sector. Normally, I own only a small share of them in my portfolio because I've no idea how long our economy will be addicted by oil and gas. Further, it's also a black box to me because of the cyclic oil price and changing oil reserves.

However, below is a list of five top stocks that have raised their dividend payments over the recent year by more than 25 percent and they still have a good chance to grow their dividends in the future.

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Cheapest Dividend Paying Large Caps As of August 2013

Cheap large capitalized stocks with high growth originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com. Dividend stocks with great looking fundamentals and cheap price ratios can promise you a good return but they are also very rare and hard to find in my view. The higher your efforts of your screen are, the lower the number of results you get.

Today I would like to update my monthly screen about the cheapest dividend paying stocks on the capital market. I use six very strong criteria and only around a dozen companies remain each month.

My criteria for the cheap large cap screen are:

- Market Capitalization over USD 10 billion

- Expected Earnings per share growth over 10 percent for the next year.

- P/E ratio under 15

- P/S and P/B ratio under 2

- Positive Dividends

Twelve companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria and ten of them have a current buy or better rating. One stock has a high yield (5 percent dividend yield or more). To buy cheap stocks is no guarantee for a return but you get value for what you pay and the possibility to overpay a stock is also low if the business model is stable.

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Next Week's Best Yielding Large Cap Ex-Dividend Stocks

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 week.

A full list of all stocks with payment dates can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Between August 12 - 18, 2013. In total, 182 stocks go ex dividend - of which 61 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 4.28%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
AstraZeneca PLC	AZN	63.54B	13.01	2.74	2.39	7.49%
Royal Dutch Shell plc	RDS-B	214.51B	8.18	1.19	0.47	5.08%
Duke Energy Corporation	DUK	49.89B	21.38	1.22	2.28	4.41%
Pearson plc	PSO	16.79B	44.28	1.91	2.13	4.37%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	17.66B	16.89	1.49	1.43	4.08%
Exelon Corporation	EXC	26.73B	27.91	1.27	1.07	3.97%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	11.26B	15.57	2.99	2.29	3.95%
Eli Lilly & Co.	LLY	58.53B	12.15	3.84	2.55	3.62%
CenterPoint Energy, Inc.	CNP	10.39B	55.11	2.48	1.28	3.42%
Chevron Corporation	CVX	235.37B	9.93	1.68	1.01	3.27%
E. I. du Pont de Nemours	DD	55.12B	23.52	4.22	1.56	3.01%
Simon Property Group Inc.	SPG	49.01B	40.81	8.46	9.75	2.91%
Enbridge Inc.	ENB	33.97B	59.81	5.16	1.32	2.88%
Microsoft Corporation	MSFT	272.88B	12.63	3.46	3.51	2.81%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	TEVA	34.57B	20.22	1.52	1.72	2.70%
Walgreen Co.	WAG	47.02B	21.85	2.48	0.66	2.54%
International Paper Co.	IP	21.54B	21.93	3.21	0.75	2.50%
Talisman Energy Inc.	TLM	11.57B	-	1.21	2.05	2.40%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	20.16B	7.38	1.10	0.15	2.15%
Phillips 66	PSX	36.48B	7.98	1.68	0.21	2.12%

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 12, 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 12, 2013. In total, 22 stocks go ex dividend - of which 11 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 5.74%.

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

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Sandridge Mississippian Trust II	SDR	774.72M	8.11	1.81	7.49	17.52%
SandRidge Mississippian Trust I	SDT	401.80M	5.04	1.58	4.71	17.00%
SandRidge Permian Trust	PER	827.93M	6.57	1.72	6.06	14.84%
TECO Energy, Inc.	TE	3.85B	16.88	1.67	1.31	4.92%
United Online, Inc.	UNTD	776.04M	105.00	1.67	0.90	4.76%
Consolidated Edison Inc.	ED	17.75B	16.97	1.49	1.44	4.06%
Regency Centers Corporation	REG	4.65B	-	3.24	9.37	3.58%
Wisconsin Energy Corp.	WEC	9.94B	18.28	2.37	2.26	3.52%
Sandy Spring Bancorp Inc.	SASR	614.46M	14.06	1.27	4.21	2.60%
Valero Energy Corporation	VLO	20.11B	7.36	1.10	0.15	2.16%
Protective Life Corp.	PL	3.44B	12.63	0.76	0.95	1.84%
Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.	FDP	1.70B	14.03	0.93	0.49	1.70%
Micrel Inc.	MCRL	599.60M	54.16	2.61	2.41	1.65%
Pool Corp.	POOL	2.50B	30.84	7.22	1.25	1.42%
Beam, Inc.	BEAM	10.64B	24.55	2.27	4.24	1.36%
United States Steel Corp.	X	2.61B	-	0.75	0.14	1.11%
Home Bancshares, Inc.	HOMB	1.53B	22.49	2.87	8.26	1.10%
Carriage Services Inc.	CSV	326.32M	28.11	2.32	1.55	0.56%

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