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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34 Stocks With A Growing Dividend From Last Week | 24 Shares Have A Buy Rating

Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 34 stocks announced a dividend hike last week. That’s a pretty increase compared to the recent weeks with only around 10 dividend hikers. We come back to old strength.

The biggest names on the list are the Brazil bank Itau Unibanco Holding, the oil and gas pipeline operator Kinder Morgan as well as the healthcare medical equipment stock Covidien.

24 of the dividend growth stocks from last week have a current buy or better rating and 10 are valuated with a P/E below 15.

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The Latest Dividend Growth Stocks | Kinder Morgan In Focus

Stocks with receent dividend hikes originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com.

Two initial special dividends were announced yesterday and nine companies announced a nice dividend growth on the past trading day.

The biggest stock was Kinder Morgan Partners and the greatest dividend hike came from Western Refining with a 50 percent dividend growth. See the table below with ex-dividend and payment dates.

Dividend growth accelerates but is still weak.

Company	Dividend Yield in %	Dividend Growth	Payment Period	Ex-Dividend Date	Dividend Payment Date
Boston Priv Fincl Hldgs	2.47	40.00%	Quarterly	8/6/2013	8/22/2013
EQT Midstream Partners LP	3.50	8.11%	Quarterly	8/1/2013	8/14/2013
First Community	2.15	20.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan	4.05	5.26%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013
Kinder Morgan Energy	6.17	1.54%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/14/2013
LaSalle Hotel Prprts	4.23	40.00%	Quarterly	9/26/2013	10/15/2013
Western Gas Equity Ptrs	1.88	10.49%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/21/2013
Western Gas Partners LP	3.57	3.70%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/12/2013
Western Refining	2.63	50.00%	Quarterly	7/29/2013	8/15/2013

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50 Shares With Fastest Dividend Growth In April 2013

Shares with highest dividend growth researched by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Only a growing business is a good business; that’s a major rule in economics. But growth is not all. Investors want a part of the company’s success; they want growing dividends at high rates.

Sometimes, predatory investors and some activists try to steal some of the company’s assets and force a dividend payment which is much higher than the current earnings. Those activities are bad for the stock price.

Good dividend hikes are such ones that are in-line with a healthy growing operational business. They reflect a solid growing business with a trustful management who wants to share the company’s success with the ownership.

It’s easy to discover good and bad dividend growth. All you need is to look at the earnings developments and debt changes.

Today I run my screen of the 50 fastest dividend growers from the recent month. Below the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. All stocks have a double-digit growth rate. The average dividend growth of the 50 best stocks amounts to 73.26 percent. The average yield is still at 3.77 percent.

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