These 16 Stocks Hiked Dividends In The Past Week

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These 16 Stocks Hiked Dividends In The Past Week

What a Week! Scotland votes no and remains in the United Kingdom!  But more important to me were the dividend growth announcements of the week which I cover.

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I love dividend growth stocks and have made a significant amount of money with them as a long-term orientated investor. My strategy is somewhat between growth and value. I’m a fan of Warren Buffett but I have my own experience and strategy.

Within the past week, sixteen stocks hiked dividends. Big names like Microsoft and McDonald’s are part of the list.

Linked is a small overview of my favorites by biggest market capitalization. At the end of this article, you will also find a full list of all dividend grower and buyback announcements.

Dividend growth and share buybacks are two essential ways to give shareholders directly and indirect more money into their pocket.

It also show in most cases that the firm is doing well and like to share their success with the owner of the company.

#1 Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM) has a market capitalization of $6.90 billion. The company employs 19,500 people, generates revenue of $3,025.92 million and has a net income of $99.96 million. Iron Mountain’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $820.27 million. The EBITDA margin is 27.11 percent (the operating margin is 14.83 percent and the net profit margin 3.30 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 62.70 percent of Iron Mountain’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 400.65 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 8.80 percent was realized by Iron Mountain. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.90. Last fiscal year, Iron Mountain paid $1.08 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 18.80, the P/S ratio is 2.28 and the P/B ratio is finally 6.57. The dividend yield amounts to 5.32 percent and the beta  has a value of 0.86.

 

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