32 Stocks Raised Dividends Last Week | Oil & Gas Companies Are Big Players

I love dividends and dividend growth stocks because they are one of my major wealth driver. That’s the main reason why I make a regular screen of the latest stocks with dividend growth on my blog “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 

I believe that companies with rising dividends should have a well running business and could have a better performance in the long-run. Below is a current list of companies that have announced a dividend hike within the recent week. In total, 32 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 18 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.33 percent.


Below the top dividend growth stocks are eight with a high yield. 16 companies are currently recommended to buy or even have a strong buy rating. 

If I scroll through the list, I find many oil and gas companies as well as financial stocks. Banks pay more dividends in order to establish pre-financial crises level. Well, that’s still far away. 

Oil & Gas pipeline operators raised dividends very continuously in the past. They benefit from the fact that America experiences a new oil rush with shale gas and shale oil. The new energy sources must be transported with an infrastructure that does not exist for the time being. 

It could be more interesting to look at railroad stocks. I try to make a screen in the near future. What are your thoughts about the lastest dividend growth stocks? Do you own some of them? Would you buy one of them? Please let me know and leave a comment in the box below!

Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks:

Kinder Morgan Energy (NYSE:KMP) has a market capitalization of $32.35 billion. The company employs 8,120 people, generates revenue of $8,642 billion and has a net income of $2.025 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3.433 billion. The EBITDA margin is 39.72 percent (the operating margin is 27.08 percent and the net profit margin 23.43 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 45.80 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 129.94 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 6.21 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.65. Last fiscal year, the company paid $4.98 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 53.86, the P/S ratio is 3.74 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.86. The dividend yield amounts to 5.82 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.40.
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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Kinder Morgan Energy (KMP)
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Long-Term Dividends History of Kinder Morgan Energy (KMP)
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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Kinder Morgan Energy (KMP)
Williams Companies (NYSE:WMB) has a market capitalization of $21.79 billion. The company employs 4,293 people, generates revenue of $7.930 billion and has a net income of $1.078 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2.257 billion. The EBITDA margin is 28.46 percent (the operating margin is 20.13 percent and the net profit margin 13.59 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 52.85 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 672.99 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 19.83 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.06. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.78 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 32.71, the P/S ratio is 2.95 and the P/B ratio is finally 15.86. The dividend yield amounts to 3.90 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.30.
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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Williams Companies (WMB)
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Long-Term Dividends History of Williams Companies (WMB)
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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Williams Companies (WMB)
BlackRock (NYSE:BLK) has a market capitalization of $40.81 billion. The company employs 10,400 people, generates revenue of $9.337 billion and has a net income of $2.440 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3.681 billion. The EBITDA margin is 39.42 percent (the operating margin is 37.74 percent and the net profit margin 26.13 percent).
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $13.76. Last fiscal year, the company paid $6.00 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.00, the P/S ratio is 4.25 and the P/B ratio is not calculable. The dividend yield amounts to 2.87 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.55.
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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of BlackRock (BLK)
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Long-Term Dividends History of BlackRock (BLK)
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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of BlackRock (BLK)
Schlumberger (NYSE:SLB) has a market capitalization of $101.56 billion. The company employs 113,000 people, generates revenue of $42.321 billion and has a net income of $5.468 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $11.031 billion. The EBITDA margin is 26.07 percent (the operating margin is 16.99 percent and the net profit margin 12.92 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 18.90 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 33.36 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 16.45 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.06. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.10 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 18.85, the P/S ratio is 2.40 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.91. The dividend yield amounts to 1.63 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.37.
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Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Schlumberger (SLB)
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Long-Term Dividends History of Schlumberger (SLB)
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Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Schlumberger (SLB)

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 25.33 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.36 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 22.96.The average P/S ratio is 3.17 and P/B 3.76.

Here is the full list of last week's best dividend growth stocks:

Stocks With Dividend Growth (Click to enlarge)

Here are the market price ratios:

Ticker
Company
P/E
P/S
P/B
Dividend Yield
DMLP
Dorchester Minerals LP
18.93
10.72
5.65
8.01%
CLMT
Calumet Specialty Products Partners LP
9.81
0.45
2.20
7.66%
GHI
Global High Income Fund, Inc.
9.30
13.72
1.01
7.33%
OHI
Omega Healthcare Investors Inc.
25.22
8.60
2.80
6.91%
NGLS
Targa Resources Partners LP
21.84
0.62
2.64
6.67%
KMP
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP
57.19
3.98
2.97
5.69%
EPB
El Paso Pipeline Partners, L.P.
20.01
5.92
4.47
5.68%
GEL
Genesis Energy LP
37.85
0.86
3.35
5.07%
LNT
Alliant Energy Corporation
16.26
1.57
1.53
3.94%
KMI
Kinder Morgan, Inc.
38.17
4.39
2.99
3.85%
WMB
Williams Companies, Inc.
32.77
3.03
7.05
3.74%
WEC
Wisconsin Energy Corp.
15.81
2.04
2.10
3.57%
TRGP
Targa Resources Corp.
69.65
0.40
19.22
2.85%
OKE
ONEOK Inc.
28.45
0.74
4.65
2.81%
PCBK
Pacific Continental Corp.
21.65
3.11
0.98
2.81%
EBTC
Enterprise Bancorp Inc.
13.22
2.33
1.17
2.66%
BLK
BlackRock, Inc.
18.19
4.39
1.61
2.56%
PKG
Packaging Corp. of America
27.41
1.42
4.18
2.50%
MBWM
Mercantile Bank Corp.
3.98
2.41
1.03
2.09%
FCCO
First Community Corporation
10.11
1.95
0.86
1.80%
MOFG
MidWest One Financial Group, Inc.
12.24
2.75
1.11
1.69%
ATR
AptarGroup, Inc.
21.53
1.51
2.52
1.68%
KALU
Kaiser Aluminum Corporation
14.74
0.89
1.20
1.60%
FABK
First Advantage Bancorp.
21.36
3.04
0.74
1.59%
SLB
Schlumberger Limited
18.70
2.41
2.97
1.44%
FINL
Finish Line Inc.
11.84
0.61
1.72
1.34%
WNR
Western Refining Inc.
35.65
0.27
2.66
1.08%
CLB
Core Laboratories NV
25.45
5.49
23.13
0.98%
A
Agilent Technologies Inc.
13.50
2.24
2.95
0.91%
BPFH
Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc.
18.09
3.24
1.22
0.43%
Average
22.96
3.17
3.76
3.36%

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