The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (April 30 – May 06, 2012)

Stocks With Biggest Dividend Hikes From Last Week by Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 62 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 39 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 36.44 percent. Exactly 23 stocks have a yield over five percent and 42 are currently recommended to buy.

Here are the stocks with fast dividend growth:

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PepsiCo (NYSE:PEP) has a market capitalization of $103.07 billion. The company employs 297,000 people, generates revenues of $66,504.00 million and has a net income of $6,462.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $12,242.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 18.41 percent (operating margin 14.48 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.72 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 36.73 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 130.04 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 30.66 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.03. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.02 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 16.35, P/S ratio 1.57 and P/B ratio 5.05. Dividend Yield: 3.21 percent. The beta ratio is 0.49.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of PepsiCo, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of PepsiCo, Inc. (PEP) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE: PEP) (Click to enlarge)

Barrick Gold (NYSE:ABX) has a market capitalization of $37.91 billion. The company employs 20,034 people, generates revenues of $14,312.00 million and has a net income of $4,537.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $8,089.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 56.52 percent (operating margin 46.63 percent and the net profit margin finally 31.70 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 27.35 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 57.22 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 20.94 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.51. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.51 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 8.41, P/S ratio 2.65 and P/B ratio 1.63. Dividend Yield: 2.11 percent. The beta ratio is 0.42.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (ABX) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Barrick Gold Corp. (USA) (NYSE: ABX) (Click to enlarge)

Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) has a market capitalization of $14.76 billion. The company employs 31,900 people, generates revenues of $102,644.20 million and has a net income of $966.20 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,825.40 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 1.78 percent (operating margin 1.48 percent and the net profit margin finally 0.94 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 10.95 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 42.78 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 17.37 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.97. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.78 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.36, P/S ratio 0.15 and P/B ratio 2.60. Dividend Yield: 2.19 percent. The beta ratio is 0.80.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Cardinal Health, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Cardinal Health, Inc. (CAH) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Cardinal Health, Inc. (NYSE: CAH) (Click to enlarge)

Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ:TSCO) has a market capitalization of $6.95 billion. The company employs 8,700 people, generates revenues of $4,232.74 million and has a net income of $222.74 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $433.05 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 10.23 percent (operating margin 8.33 percent and the net profit margin finally 5.26 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 0.08 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.13 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.94 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.32. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.43 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 29.04, P/S ratio 1.68 and P/B ratio 7.00. Dividend Yield: 0.81 percent. The beta ratio is 0.82.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Tractor Supply Company (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Tractor Supply Company (TSCO) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 36.44 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.04 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 22.62. The average P/S ratio is 3.23 and P/B 2.96.

Here is the full table of stocks with recent dividend growth:

Here are the market price ratios:

Ticker	Company	P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend Yield
FDUS	Fidus Investment Corporation	8.29	5.45	0.91	10.06%
TCRD	THL Credit, Inc.	10.37	6.73	0.94	9.32%
PVR	Penn Virginia Resource Partners LP	17.42	1.66	3.31	8.36%
DCIX	Diana Containerships Inc.	48.13	6.17	0.81	8.31%
NRGM	Inergy Midstream LLC	34.46	14.03	2.52	6.82%
ARLP	Alliance Resource Partners LP	7.58	1.23	3.63	6.43%
CHKM	Chesapeake Midstream Partners, L.P.	19.31	6.92	1.61	5.90%
DPM	DCP Midstream Partners LP	26.77	1.15	3.21	5.78%
AHGP	Alliance Holdings GP, L.P.	12.45	1.45	6.73	5.72%
MWE	MarkWest Energy Partners LP	71.06	2.77	4.68	5.42%
OZM	Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC	N/A	4.94	5.48	4.80%
ROIC	Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.	54.35	12.00	1.37	3.84%
CPK	Chesapeake Utilities Corporation	14.39	0.95	1.64	3.34%
NU	Northeast Utilities	16.24	1.42	1.55	3.26%
JCOM	j2 Global, Inc.	10.85	3.69	2.21	3.20%
PEP	Pepsico, Inc.	16.35	1.56	4.56	3.13%
SPG	Simon Property Group Inc.	30.53	10.61	7.69	2.46%
GORO	Gold Resource Corp	23.13	12.45	15.09	2.42%
APOG	Apogee Enterprises, Inc.	88.71	0.64	1.32	2.16%
CAH	Cardinal Health, Inc.	15.64	0.14	2.49	2.01%
MAN	ManpowerGroup	12.83	0.15	1.25	2.00%
HFWA	Heritage Financial Corp.	30.21	2.65	0.97	1.89%
JMP	JMP Group Inc.	N/A	1.14	1.21	1.74%
UFS	Domtar Corporation	9.37	0.64	1.05	1.66%
MNRK	Monarch Financial Holdings, Inc.	10.15	1.42	0.76	1.61%
ABX	Barrick Gold Corporation	8.46	2.65	1.62	1.58%
ARG	Airgas Inc.	25.40	1.52	4.24	1.40%
AFSI	AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.	9.97	1.22	1.86	1.30%
TRN	Trinity Industries Inc.	13.00	0.67	1.11	1.29%
EXPD	Expeditors International of Washington Inc.	22.07	1.36	4.18	1.27%
HUM	Humana Inc.	9.49	0.36	1.63	1.25%
CNBC	Center Bancorp Inc.	12.79	3.22	1.34	1.17%
RBC	Regal Beloit Corporation	16.33	0.92	1.68	1.16%
RGR	Sturm, Ruger & Co. Inc.	25.48	3.10	7.41	1.11%
CGNX	Cognex Corporation	22.75	4.92	2.83	1.08%
EBIX	Ebix Inc.	10.69	4.01	2.12	0.86%
PLT	Plantronics, Inc.	13.36	1.94	2.67	0.62%
TSCO	Tractor Supply Company	29.06	1.57	6.59	0.50%
AME	Ametek Inc.	20.14	2.60	3.68	0.48%
MRTN	Marten Transport Ltd.	17.72	0.73	1.40	0.39%
JLL	Jones Lang Lasalle Inc.	21.69	0.97	2.06	0.37%
FRME	First Merchants Corp.	37.79	1.99	0.84	0.32%
Average		22.62	3.23	2.96	3.04%

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