The Best Small-Cap Dividend Growers: Heartland Payment Systems
Published Dec 17, 2014 on Seeking Alpha

OverviewI previously concluded a series of articles that identified what I consider to be the best long-term income stocks (based on dividend growth and yield) for investors by comparing S&P 500 stocks within the same industry sector. In this series of articles, I will be following the same process for small-cap stocks within the S&P 600.For Part 12, I will be taking a look at Business Services stocks within the Industrials sector. These stocks include:ABM Industries (NYSE: ABM)Cardtronics (Nasdaq: CATM)ComScore (Nasdaq: SCOR)ExlService Holdings (Nasdaq: EXLS)Exponent (Nasdaq: EXPO)Forrester Research (Nasdaq: FORR)G&K Services (Nasdaq: GK)Healthcare Services Group (Nasdaq: HCSG)Heartland Payment Systems (NYSE: HPY)Higher One Holdings (NYSE: ONE)Insperity (NYSE: NSP)Maximus (NYSE: MMS)Navigant Consulting (NYSE: NCI)PRA Group (Nasdaq: PRAA)Synnex (NYSE: SNX)Tele Tech Holdings (Nasdaq: TTEC)Viad (NYSE: VVI)WageWorks (NYSE: WAGE)Out of these stocks, the following do not currently pay a dividend: Cardtronics, ComScore, ExlService Holdings, Higher One Holdings, Navigant Consulting, PRA Group, Tele Tech Holdings, and WageWorks.When ranking the remaining stocks by dividend yield, the order is as follows:Insperity - 2.41%Healthcare Services Group - 2.39%ABM Industries - 2.33%G&K Services - 1.94%Forrester Research - 1.61%Viad - 1.54%Exponent - 1.28%Synnex - 0.69%Heartland Payment Systems - 0.66%Maximus - 0.36%When ranking the remaining two stocks by dividend growth over the past... Read more