The Best Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (May 14 – May 20, 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, 36 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 24 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 26.33 percent. Exactly 10 stocks have a yield over five percent and 17 are currently recommended to buy.

Here are the stocks with fast dividend growth:

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Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) has a market capitalization of $18.56 billion. The company employs 4,293 people, generates revenues of $7,930.00 million and has a net income of $1,078.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,209.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 40.47 percent (operating margin 20.11 percent and the net profit margin finally 13.59 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 52.85 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 486.45 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 17.69 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.32. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.78 in form of dividends to shareholders. WMB raised dividends by 15.9 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 22.50, P/S ratio 2.34 and P/B ratio 9.79. Dividend Yield: 4.04 percent. The beta ratio is 1.33.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Williams Companie... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Williams Companie... (WMB) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Williams Companie... (NYSE: WMB) (Click to enlarge)

ACE Limited (NYSE:ACE) has a market capitalization of $24.39 billion. The company employs 16,500 people, generates revenues of $16,834.00 million and has a net income of $1,585.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,861.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 28.88 percent (operating margin 12.68 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.42 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 5.27 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 18.81 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 6.68 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $6.72. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.38 in form of dividends to shareholders. ACE raised dividends by 69.0 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.72, P/S ratio 1.45 and P/B ratio 0.99. Dividend Yield: 2.72 percent. The beta ratio is 0.75.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of ACE Limited (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of ACE Limited (ACE) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of ACE Limited (NYSE: ACE) (Click to enlarge)

Tiffany & Co. (NYSE:TIF) has a market capitalization of $7.66 billion. The company employs 9,800 people, generates revenues of $3,642.94 million and has a net income of $439.19 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $858.55 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 23.57 percent (operating margin 19.45 percent and the net profit margin finally 12.06 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 17.12 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 30.32 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 19.41 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.41. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.12 in form of dividends to shareholders. TIF raised dividends by 10.3 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.80, P/S ratio 2.10 and P/B ratio 3.27. Dividend Yield: 2.11 percent. The beta ratio is 1.79.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Tiffany & Co. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Tiffany & Co. (TIF) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) (Click to enlarge)

Coach (NYSE:COH) has a market capitalization of $18.93 billion. The company employs 5,200 people, generates revenues of $4,158.51 million and has a net income of $880.80 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,430.03 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 34.39 percent (operating margin 31.38 percent and the net profit margin finally 21.18 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 0.92 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 1.50 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 56.50 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.35. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.68 in form of dividends to shareholders. COH raised dividends by 33.3 percent.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.69, P/S ratio 4.55 and P/B ratio 11.79. Dividend Yield: 1.82 percent. The beta ratio is 1.63.

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

Long-Term Dividends History of Coach, Inc. (COH) (Click to enlarge)

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

Take a closer look at the full table of the stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 26.33 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 4.04 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 17.51. The average P/S ratio is 2.74 and P/B 1.98.

Here is the full table of dividend growth stocks:

Stocks With Dividend Growth From Last Week (Click to enlarge)

Here are the price ratios of the companies:

Ticker	Company	P/E	P/S	P/B	Dividend Yield
TNK	Teekay Tankers Ltd.	N/A	2.71	0.45	14.79%
SDRL	SeaDrill Limited	12.05	4.07	2.79	9.20%
GHI	Global High Income Fund, Inc.	48.00	14.65	0.92	8.80%
STAG	STAG Industrial, Inc.	N/A	3.39	0.98	7.91%
ESD	Legg Mason Partners Income Trust	14.48	12.62	0.93	7.54%
EMD	Western Asset Emerging Markets Income Fund Inc.	N/A	N/A	N/A	7.38%
SBW	Western Asset Worldwide Income Fund Inc.	N/A	N/A	N/A	7.23%
SSW	Seaspan Corp.	N/A	1.73	0.91	6.44%
PEI	Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust	N/A	1.52	1.30	5.18%
GFY	Western Asset Variable Rate Strategic Fund Inc.	37.80	16.01	0.99	5.05%
SGL	Strategic Global Income Fund Inc.	N/A	N/A	N/A	4.93%
WMB	Williams Companies, Inc.	22.48	2.30	9.13	4.04%
XEL	Xcel Energy Inc.	16.23	1.27	1.56	3.96%
NI	NiSource Inc.	24.43	1.27	1.37	3.93%
SWY	Safeway Inc.	10.45	0.10	1.68	3.81%
NOC	Northrop Grumman Corporation	7.52	0.56	1.39	3.79%
CLX	The Clorox Company	16.74	1.63	N/A	3.78%
AWK	American Water Works Company, Inc.	18.65	2.17	1.37	3.03%
MMC	Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.	17.57	1.48	2.79	2.91%
PL	Protective Life Corp.	6.03	0.61	0.54	2.87%
ACE	ACE Limited	10.72	1.42	0.96	2.72%
NSP	Insperity, Inc.	18.24	0.32	2.50	2.72%
PCBK	Pacific Continental Corp.	25.31	2.81	0.92	2.63%
AIZ	Assurant Inc.	5.81	0.36	0.61	2.38%
OPNT	OPNET Technologies Inc.	32.53	3.40	4.89	2.31%
CBT	Cabot Corp.	13.83	0.71	1.34	2.17%
HFC	HollyFrontier Corporation	4.35	0.32	1.14	2.13%
TIF	Tiffany & Co.	17.78	2.10	3.27	2.11%
SPTN	Spartan Stores Inc.	13.70	0.15	1.19	1.84%
COH	Coach, Inc.	19.67	4.08	9.78	1.82%
KEY	KeyCorp	8.05	2.51	0.70	1.62%
ASH	Ashland Inc.	N/A	0.64	1.14	1.47%
HVT	Haverty Furniture Companies Inc.	16.45	0.42	0.99	1.33%
PRI	Primerica, Inc.	10.23	1.26	1.10	0.85%
LUV	Southwest Airlines Co.	23.29	0.38	0.89	0.49%
WAB	Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation	17.79	1.59	2.97	0.29%
Average		17.51	2.74	1.98	4.04%

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