25 Top Stocks And Funds With Recent Dividend Growth

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Last week, 25 companies announced to raise their dividend distributions to shareholders. Many REITs and closed-end funds are on the list of the growth stocks.

My favorite is General Mills. GIS increased its dividends by 15.2 percent. That’s a pretty good value in my view especially when you consider that General Mills is not a fast growing stock. I also put shares of GIS into my Dividend Yield Passive Income Portfolio. With the latest hike, the current yield is back above the 3 percent mark.

Another stock with monthly paying dividends is Realty Income. It seems ambitious how fast they grow dividends. The latest hike was 0.2 percent on a monthly basis. The dividend payments of Realty Income are still higher than the earnings per share income – How long could this go on?

From 25 stocks with dividend growth from last week are 15 with a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 34.58 percent. Linked is a full free list of all companies and funds with some price ratios to compare.

Below the results are 4 High-Yields; 13 companies have a current buy or better rating.


Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks:

Realty Income (O) has a market capitalization of $8.00 billion. The company employs 97 people, generates revenue of $475.51 million and has a net income of $145.97 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $420.14 million. The EBITDA margin is 88.36 percent (the operating margin is 31.00 percent and the net profit margin 30.70 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 52.98 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 119.52 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 5.45 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.76. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.78 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 58.64, the P/S ratio is 18.25 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.31. The dividend yield amounts to 4.86 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.75.

General Mills (GIS) has a market capitalization of $29.90 billion. The company employs 35,000 people, generates revenue of $16.657 billion and has a net income of $1.5 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3.10 billion. The EBITDA margin is 18.63 percent (the operating margin is 15.38 percent and the net profit margin 9.01 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 35.22 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 115.70 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 24.51 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.71. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.22 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.06, the P/S ratio is 1.79 and the P/B ratio is finally 4.67. The dividend yield amounts to 2.85 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.17.

Zimmer Holdings (ZMH) has a market capitalization of $12.53 billion. The company employs 9,300 people, generates revenue of $4.471 billion and has a net income of $752.90 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1.410 billion. The EBITDA margin is 31.54 percent (the operating margin is 23.42 percent and the net profit margin 16.84 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 20.20 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 31.07 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 13.28 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.30. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.54 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.19, the P/S ratio is 2.80 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.17. The dividend yield amounts to 1.08 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.11.

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 34.58 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.18 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 33.35.The average P/S ratio is 7.28 and P/B 2.37.

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Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at “long-term-investments.blogspot.com“.