Companies Reporting Earnings Tomorrow

This has been a wild couple of weeks for stocks with all the earnings reports. Just look at Twitter (TWTR), Facebook (FB), Akamai (AKAM), Wynn (WYNN), and many other stocks making major moves.

If you want to know what is coming up tomorrow, here is a list of some of the major companies announcing earnings.

Ameren (AEE)
Chevron (CVX)
Exxon Mobil (XOM)
Legg Mason (LM)
Moneygram (MGI)
Phillips 66 (PSX)
Seagate (STX)
Tyco (TYC)
Weyerhaeuser (WY)

Spotlight on Recent Dividend Increasers

Income investors obviously like dividend stocks. But both income investors and growth investors like stocks that increase their dividends. When a company increases its payout rate, it shows that the financial outlook for the business is positive. If a company has a long term track record of increasing dividends, that's an additional positive sign.

One type of stock that I've never lost money on is a water company. And speaking of water companies, Connecticut Water Service, Inc. (CTWS) just announced that the company's dividend is being boosted by 4%. This is the 45th year in a row that that the company has had a dividend increase. Connecticut Water serves over 120,000 customers in Connecticut and Maine. The stock, which yields 3.0%, trades at 19 times trailing earnings and 17 times forward earnings. The latest quarterly earnings were up an incredible 73.8% year over year on a 12.9% rise in revenues.

Nordson Corporation (NDSN), which is in the business of making and marketing adhesives, coatings, and polymers, bumped up its dividend from 18 cents a share to 22 cents a share, a 22% increase. This is the 51st year of annual consecutive dividend increases, giving the stock a yield of about 1.0%. Quarterly earnings were up 13.4% on a 9.3% increase in revenues.

Other companies that have increased dividends in the last couple weeks are MGE Energy, Inc. (MGEE) which raised its dividend by 4%, and Weyerhaeuser (WY), which boosted its dividend by 32%,. It you like interesting stock lists like this, check out the lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, most of which are free, including the list of stocks going ex-dividend.

Disclosure: Author didn't own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com

Stocks that Have Recently Raised Their Dividends

The following stocks have recently increased their dividends. This is usually a sign that the company is doing well.

G&K Services (GK) raised its quarterly dividend by 38%

Intertape Polymer Group Inc. (TSX:ITP) doubled its dividend on an annualized basis.

Nordson Corp. (NDSN) raised the company's quarterly cash dividend 20%

Marathon Petroleum Corporation (MPC) just a a dividend which was 20% over the previous quarter.

ITC Holdings (ITC) increased the quarterly dividend by 1

Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) announced a 10% increase in its quarterly dividend.

MGE Energy, Inc. (MGEE) increased the regular quarterly dividend to $0.4076 per share

Connecticut Water Service, Inc. (CTWS) announced an annualized dividend increase of 2.1%

Group 1 Automotive, Inc. (GPI) declared a cash dividend increase of 6.3%

Cinemark Holdings, Inc. (CNK) announced a 19% increase in its quarterly dividend payout. If you like interesting lists like this, check out the many stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, most of which are free.

Stock Dividend Increasers for April

The following stocks have recently increased their dividends. This is the sign of a good company and could be the sign of an improving economy.

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (BK) will increase its quarterly dividend by 15 percent

Stage Stores, Inc. announced that its Board of Directors approved an increase in the Company's quarterly dividend rate by 25%

IDEX (IEX) announced that its Board of Directors has approved a fifteen percent increase in it's regular quarterly cash dividend

Weyerhaeuser (WY) announced an 18 percent increase in the company's regular quarterly cash dividend

H.B. Fuller Company (FUL) increased it's regular quarterly dividend from $0.085 per share of common stock to $0.10 per share

Burger King (BKW) raised its dividend by 20%

Fastenal Company (FAST) announced its quarterly dividend of 20 cents per share, an increase of about doubled its dividend

Tanger Factory Outlet Centers (SKT), announced a 7.1% increase in the annual dividend

If you like interesting lists like this, check out the many stock lists at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com, most of which are free.

Stocks Going Ex Dividend the Second Week of November

Here is our latest update on the stock trading technique called 'Buying Dividends'. This is the process of buying stocks before the ex dividend date and selling the stock shortly after the ex date at about the same price, yet still being entitled to the dividend. This technique generally works only in bull markets. In flat or choppy markets, you have to be extremely careful.

In order to be entitled to the dividend, you have to buy the stock before the ex-dividend date, and you can't sell the stock until after the ex date. The actual dividend may not be paid for another few weeks. WallStreetNewsNetwork.com has compiled a downloadable and sortable list of the stocks going ex dividend during the next week or two. The list contains many dividend paying companies, all with market caps over $500 million, and yields over 2%. Here are a few examples showing the stock symbol, the market capitalization, the ex-dividend date and the yield.

Weyerhaeuser Company (WY) market cap: $9.3B ex div date: 11/8/2011 yield: 3.5%

Belo Corp. (BLC) market cap: $606.3M ex div date: 11/8/2011 yield: 3.2%

Wisconsin Energy Corporation (WEC) market cap: $7.7B ex div date: 11/9/2011 yield: 3.2%

Shaw Communications Inc. (SJR) market cap: $8.3B ex div date: 11/10/2011 yield: 4.5%

Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) market cap: $44.1B ex div date: 11/10/2011 yield: 5.2%

ARMOUR Residential REIT, Inc. (ARR) market cap: $843.9M ex div date: ex div date: 11/10/2011 yield: 19.5%

E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (DD) market cap: $42.6B ex div date: 11/10/2011 yield: 3.6%

Astoria Financial Corporation (AF) market cap: $763.7M ex div date: 11/10/2011 yield: 6.7%

The additional ex-dividend stocks can be found at wsnn.com. (If you have been to the website before, and the latest link doesn't show up, you may have to empty your cache.) If you like dividend stocks, you should check out the high yield utility stocks and the Monthly Dividend Stocks at WallStreetNewsNetwork.com or WSNN.com.

Dividend definitions:

Declaration date: the day that the company declares that there is going to be an upcoming dividend.

Ex-dividend date: the day on which if you buy the stock, you would not be entitled to that particular dividend; or the first day on which a shareholder can sell the shares and still be entitled to the dividend.

Monthly Dividend Stock List
Record date: the day when you must be on the company's books as a shareholder to receive the dividend. The ex-dividend date is normally set for stocks two business days before the record date.

Payment date: the day on which the dividend payment is actually made, which can be as long at two months after the ex date.

Don't forget to reconfirm the ex-dividend date with the company before implementing this technique.

Disclosure: Author did not own any of the above at the time the article was written.

By Stockerblog.com