Stocks with dividend hikes from last week originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. 24 companies increased its dividends within the recent week. Compared to 15 stocks from the previous week, it's a small improvement but not the big numbers of 50 or more. The average dividend growth amounts to 32.07 percent.

Several recent dividend growth stocks have a market capitalization over $10 billion. Those are big names like McDonald's, or Microsoft. The technology and software giant also announced to buy back $40 billion in own shares. That's around 14 percent of the current market value.

I've attached a list of all dividend growers from the past week. You can also find there a list of the current valuations of the stocks. Half of the results still have a low forward P/E below 15 and eleven received a buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

Here are the latest dividend growth stocks:

Twenty-Four Stocks With Brand New Dividend Increases...

Take a closer look at the full table of stocks with recent dividend hikes. The average dividend growth amounts to 32.07 percent and the average dividend yield amounts to 3.51 percent. Stocks from the sheet are valuated with a P/E ratio of 22.14. The average P/S ratio is 4.51 and P/B 3.03.

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