Below are the
current stocks with higher payments (direct or indirect) to shareholders. Those stocks plan to give shareholders a larger share of its profits via dividend growth or share buybacks.
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Dividend Growth Stocks
Last Week, a really huge number of stocks raised dividends. 75 corporate stocks hiked their dividend payments to shareholders.
The biggest company was the agricultural chemical company E.L. du Pont de Nemours followed by the Retail REIT Simon Property Group.
Investors find the highest yield at Atlas Resource and New Source Energy Partners.
Company
|
Yield in %
|
Dividend
Growth
|
|
Alliance Bancorp of PA
|
1.47
|
20.00%
|
|
Altera
|
2.15
|
20.00%
|
|
Atlas Resource Ptrs
|
11.31
|
1.71%
|
|
BancorpSouth
|
1.38
|
50.00%
|
|
Bryn Mawr Bank
|
2.54
|
5.56%
|
|
Central Pacific
|
2.21
|
25.00%
|
|
Emerge Energy Services LP
|
4.05
|
3.54%
|
|
Energy Transfer Partners
|
6.47
|
2.14%
|
|
EnLink Midstream Partners
|
4.65
|
1.39%
|
|
Ethan Allen
|
2.01
|
20.00%
|
|
Heritage Commerce
|
2.5
|
25.00%
|
|
KKR
|
10.82
|
55.81%
|
|
Lindsay
|
1.29
|
3.85%
|
|
Magellan Midstream
|
3.02
|
4.49%
|
|
MarkWest
|
4.92
|
1.15%
|
|
Nabors Indus
|
0.81
|
50.00%
|
|
NGL Energy Partners LP
|
5.28
|
6.80%
|
|
Northfield Bancorp
|
2.16
|
16.67%
|
|
ONEOK Partners
|
5.27
|
2.01%
|
|
Principal Financial Grp
|
2.63
|
6.25%
|
|
Republic Svcs
|
3
|
7.69%
|
|
Simon Property Group
|
3.08
|
6.36%
|
|
Summit Midstream Partners
|
4.11
|
4.00%
|
|
Sunoco Logistics Partners
|
3.18
|
5.04%
|
|
TC PipeLines LP
|
6.35
|
3.70%
|
|
Tesoro Logistics LP
|
3.41
|
4.24%
|
|
Union Bankshares Corp.
|
2.47
|
7.14%
|
|
Universal Health Cl B
|
0.38
|
100.00%
|
|
USA Compression Partners
|
7.97
|
2.04%
|
|
Amphenol
|
1.02
|
25.00%
|
|
Atlas Pipeline Partners
|
7.01
|
1.61%
|
|
Bar Harbor Bankshares
|
3.31
|
3.14%
|
|
Columbia Banking System
|
2.16
|
16.67%
|
|
DR Horton
|
1.14
|
66.67%
|
|
Global Partners
|
5.72
|
2.00%
|
|
Hershey
|
2.32
|
10.31%
|
|
Interface Inc.
|
0.92
|
33.33%
|
|
Landstar System
|
0.41
|
16.67%
|
|
Legacy Reserves LP
|
7.55
|
2.52%
|
|
MainSource Fincl Group
|
2.56
|
10.00%
|
|
Oneok Inc
|
3.39
|
2.68%
|
|
Phillips 66 Partners LP
|
1.77
|
9.99%
|
|
QEP Midstream Partners LP
|
4.3
|
3.70%
|
|
Stanley Black&Decker
|
2.45
|
4.00%
|
|
Timberland Bancorp
|
1.87
|
25.00%
|
|
BBCN Bancorp
|
2.69
|
33.33%
|
|
Blueknight Engy Ptrs
|
5.96
|
1.92%
|
|
Brunswick
|
1.2
|
25.00%
|
|
CARBO Ceramics
|
0.9
|
10.00%
|
|
Community Bank Sys
|
3.37
|
7.14%
|
|
DuPont
|
2.88
|
4.44%
|
|
EQT Midstream Partners LP
|
2.19
|
6.12%
|
|
First Community Bncshrs
|
3.69
|
8.33%
|
|
Lakeland Bancorp
|
2.85
|
5.00%
|
|
MPLX L.P.
|
2.28
|
4.58%
|
|
Norfolk Southern
|
2.13
|
5.56%
|
|
Provident Fincl Hldgs
|
3.03
|
10.00%
|
|
Sotherly Hotels Inc.
|
3.34
|
30.00%
|
|
STRATS Tr Allstate 2006-3
|
1.17
|
1.33%
|
|
Bank Of Marin Bancorp
|
1.75
|
5.26%
|
|
BorgWarner
|
0.79
|
4.00%
|
|
Cross Timbers Royalty Tr
|
8.36
|
37.54%
|
|
Enduro Royalty Trust
|
8.56
|
37.02%
|
|
Home BancShares
|
1.32
|
33.33%
|
|
New Source Engy Partners
|
8.66
|
0.86%
|
|
Oiltanking Partners LP
|
2.17
|
5.05%
|
|
Permian Basin
|
9.94
|
22.71%
|
|
SunCoke Energy Partners
|
6.69
|
3.00%
|
|
Williams Partners
|
6.84
|
1.33%
|
|
Access National
|
3.37
|
8.33%
|
|
Baylake
|
2.61
|
14.29%
|
|
CoBiz Financial
|
1.41
|
14.29%
|
|
Fidelity Southern
|
2.42
|
12.50%
|
|
Marlin Midstream Partners
|
7.09
|
1.41%
|
|
Western Gas Equity Ptrs
|
1.76
|
8.50%
|
|
Western Gas Partners LP
|
3.36
|
4.00%
|
Share Buyback Summary
23 stocks announced a share repurchasing program. The biggest company from my list was Johnson & Johnson who announced a $5 billion stock repurchase program. Halliburton and Altria are the next biggest stocks. Halliburton plans to buy back own shares in an amount of $6 billion while Altria wants to invest $1 billion in corporate shares. The total volume of announced share buybacks was over $40 billion within one week. The amount of the previous week was over $7 billion.
Company
|
Stock Buyback Volume or No. Of Shares
|
Tompkins Financial Corp.
|
400K
|
IDEXX Laboratories Inc
|
5 Mln
|
Jabil Circuit Inc
|
$100 Mln
|
Alliance Bancorp Inc of Pennsylvania
|
100 K
|
Universal Health Services Inc
|
$400 Mln
|
SunCoke Energy Inc.
|
$150 Mln
|
Constant Contact Inc.
|
$30 Mln
|
Life Time Fitness Inc
|
$200 Mln
|
American Airlines Group Inc
|
$1Bln
|
Brown & Brown Inc.
|
$200 Mln
|
Polycom Inc
|
$200 Mln
|
SunCoke Energy Inc.
|
$150 Mln
|
New Oriental Education & Technology Group
|
$120 Mln
|
InterOil Corp
|
$50 Mln
|
CIT Group Inc.
|
$500 Mln
|
Altria Group Inc.
|
$1 Bln
|
Johnson & Johnson
|
$5 Bln
|
Brown & Brown Inc.
|
$200 Mln
|
Halliburton Company
|
$6 Bln
|
National Bank Holdings Corp
|
$50 Mln
|