5 Stocks With Rapid Dividend Growth and Bullish Short Trends

One helpful indicator for the sentiment surrounding a stock is short selling – when there are fewer shares shorted, the market is generally more bullish about a stock, and vice-versa. We wanted to screen dividend stocks (paying dividend yields above 2% and sustainable payout ratios below 35%) for those that are seeing rapid dividend growth, comparing the trailing-twelve-month dividend per share to the current year dividend per share estimate.Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.Your browser does not support iframes. We also created a price-weighted index of the stocks mentioned below, and monitored the performance of the list relative to the S&P 500 index over the last month. To access a complete analysis of this list's recent performance, click here. Do you think these stocks will continue to... Read more