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.

Relief is on the Way: Pershing Gold (PGLC: OTCBB) Continues to Execute its Discovery and Development Plan
and Deliver

Yesterday the company announced the discovery of much higher grade gold as well as the extension of the Lower Zone at the Relief Canyon Mine. This discovery was based on the results from seven diamond core drill holes.

Management believes that these results should increase the size of the NI 43-101 gold resource and the size of the footprint at the mine.

This AM they announced the last of three major developments this week. Debra Strushsacker joins the management team.

Written by Chris Berry, MBA - [ Discovery Investing Web Site ]

 Dividend growth stocks with very high returns on equity and returns on investment originally published at long-term-investments.blogspot.com. A solid investment delivers also solid returns over the time. Dividend growth is not the only criteria for a good investment. There are also many dividend growth stocks outside with low or negative return on investments and return on equity ratios.

Today I screened the Dividend Contenders Database by stocks with high return ratios. I fixed the 20 percent level in order to get the best results.

Only 15 companies fulfilled both, a return on equity as well as a return on investment over 20 percent. The difference between those two ratios is that the return on investment does not include the leverage effect.

 New York, NY, Point Roberts, WA - September 19, 2013 (www.investorideas.com newswire Entertainment and Financial alert) Investorideas.com, an investor research portal specializing in sector research for independent investors features an interview with and insight into entrepreneurial producer, businessman and investor Chad A. Verdi of Rhode Island. A self-made businessman, Chad always takes big risks and passionately vests himself in each endeavor he takes on.  From his role as an award winning producer and film-maker over the past decade, to now taking on a role as the largest investor in biometric mobile security company NXT-ID, Inc., (OTCQB: NXTD) Chad lives by the motto "go big or go home".