Seventeen companies announced at the end of last week that they were raising dividends. The biggest dividend growth stock on the lis is the chocolate manufacturer Hershey (HSY) HSY announced it would boost dividends by 15.48 percent. The current yield amounts to 2.07 percent.
Additional large caps raising dividends are Motorola Solutions (MSI) with a 19.23 percent hike, Hartford Financial Services (HGH) ( (50 percent hike), Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) (2.4 percent dividend hike) as well as the gas utility ONEOK (OKE). OKE announced a 5.56 percent higher dividend.
The highest yielding stock is the independent oil & gas company Atlas Resource Partners (ARP) with 9.34 percent dividend yield.