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30 Fast-Growing Dividend Growth Stocks For High Total Return

Dividend growth is important for investors who like to put money into stocks and follow a buy and hold strategy until they retire.

If the company growth and with them the dividend payout, your passive income should also grow and your investment finally be higher.

Attached you will find a nice overview of the best dividend growth stocks of the recent decade sorted by short-term, mid-term and long-term dividend growth.

For sure the past performance is no guarantee for growth in the future but it gives a nice overview about the good stocks in the past.

Maybe you own some of them and you have made a decent amount of money with your investment.

Here are the best dividend growth stocks of the past...

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On August 29, 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, 64 stocks go ex dividend - of which 18 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.69%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the upcoming week.

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

Company
Ticker
Mcap
P/E
P/B
P/S
Yield
Realty Income Corp.
O
7.83B
56.38
1.76
12.93
5.45%
Lockheed Martin Corporation
39.50B
13.79
57.01
0.85
3.74%
McDonald's Corp.
94.97B
17.37
6.26
3.42
3.25%
NV Energy, Inc.
5.59B
17.32
1.57
1.90
3.20%
Kellogg Company
K
22.43B
23.26
8.77
1.51
2.99%
Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd.
5.38B
28.34
1.57
3.09
2.82%
The Wendy's Company
2.98B
253.00
1.52
1.18
2.64%
Northrop Grumman Corporation
21.75B
11.54
2.27
0.86
2.63%
BlackRock, Inc.
44.19B
16.82
1.73
4.51
2.59%
M&T Bank Corporation
14.67B
12.91
1.49
4.94
2.45%
GameStop Corp.
5.82B
-
2.70
0.68
2.23%
Abercrombie & Fitch Co.
2.78B
13.13
1.65
0.63
2.22%
Hillshire Brands Company
3.98B
21.74
8.24
1.02
2.16%
Nordstrom Inc.
11.07B
15.02
5.45
0.89
2.12%
Hartford Financial Services
13.39B
-
0.70
0.47
2.02%
Associated Banc-Corp
2.69B
15.09
0.96
3.79
1.98%
The Interpublic Group of Comp.
6.66B
20.08
3.14
0.95
1.92%
ITC Holdings Corp.
4.62B
23.83
3.07
5.23
1.91%
Martin Marietta Materials Inc.
4.44B
45.36
3.16
2.17
1.66%
Dun & Bradstreet Corp.
3.97B
15.07
-
2.42
1.59%


Find more stocks with ex-dividend date on August 29, 2013 here.

Dodge & Cox's Latest Dividend Stock Buys And Income Holdings

Dodge & Cox fund investing strategies originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. The Dodge & Cox fund is a real equity based investment vehicle with around USD 81.3 billion in assets under management.

The investment firm was founded in 1930, by Van Duyn Dodge and E. Morris Cox. With this long history in background, there is also a long performance review available. 

Over the recent years, the fund’s performance suffered a bit. There was a small underperformance of 2.7 percent over the recent three years and 9.2 percent over the past five years. The excess gain to the S&P 500 over the longer term was also small with up to 2.9 percent at the peak (15 years).

They own in total 163 companies of which two were recently new in the fund. Kraft Foods Group and Abbvie are the two names.

Dodge & Cox have a real focus on financial, healthcare and technology stocks. More than half of their funds (59.9 percent) are invested in these three stock categories. The biggest impact on the buy side had the technology sector which is now net 0.7 percentage points bigger compared to the previous quarter.

Dodge & Cox have a dividend focus and they like large capitalized stocks. From their 20 biggest stock buys and sells in Q1/13 pay 17 a solid dividend and 17 have a valuation over USD 10 billion. Hewlett Packard is the biggest holding, worth around USD 4 billion. The latest big stock increases are up 26.03 percent year-to-date.

Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On March 07, 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 March 07, 2013. In total, 19 stocks and preferred shares go ex dividend - of which 8 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 3.04%.

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.
4.77B
16.77
1.07
0.94
5.19%
SCANA Corp.
6.48B
15.78
1.60
1.55
4.63%
UIL Holdings Corporation
2.01B
19.64
1.81
1.35
4.36%
Laclede Group Inc.
935.75M
14.75
1.51
0.92
4.10%
TELUS Corporation
22.68B
17.84
2.83
2.10
3.58%
SY Bancorp Inc.
316.68M
12.30
1.57
3.64
3.52%
Kaydon Corporation
787.88M
614.00
2.36
1.67
3.26%
South Jersey Industries, Inc.
1.77B
16.22
2.49
2.50
3.17%
Principal Financial Group Inc.
9.51B
12.61
0.98
1.03
2.84%
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.
12.55B
29.23
1.98
1.23
2.50%
MTS Systems Corp.
852.50M
17.49
3.56
1.55
2.21%
Talisman Energy Inc.
12.61B
93.92
1.26
1.72
2.21%
Interpublic Group
5.36B
15.22
2.23
0.77
1.85%
U.S. Global Investors, Inc.
59.79M
96.50
1.60
2.90
1.55%
CBS Corporation
28.24B
18.10
2.77
2.00
1.07%
J&J Snack Foods Corp.
1.34B
22.85
2.77
1.57
0.90%
Kansas City Southern
11.64B
30.80
3.76
5.20
0.81%
Expedia Inc.
8.92B
30.51
3.91
2.21
0.79%
FedEx Corporation
33.93B
17.32
2.20
0.78
0.52%