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McCormick

Maryland-based Spice and seasoning stock McCormick (MKC) is another stock that looks ready to boost its dividend payout in the next quarter. Currently, MKC pays out a 31-cent check to investors each quarter, just shy of a 2% yield. Stair-step improvements in sales and profitability should help to increase MKC's dividend in kind.

McCormick owns an attractive stable of brands found in the grocery aisle. In addition to the firm's namesake spices, Zatarain's, Old Bay and Simply Asia are all well-known brands in MKC's stable. McCormick's reach goes beyond grocery -- it also serves restaurant chains and packaged food firms that use its seasonings in their respective products. Because few firms can boast MKC's operational expertise with spices, it's a go-to firm for clients who need help developing and mass-producing the seasonings they use in large-scale food manufacturing.

International sales should continue to be a big growth engine for McCormick. While the firm has kept its share of sales from abroad nearly constant at 40%, it's managed to grow its emerging market sales by around 50% in the last year. Now these high-growth markets contribute 15% of total revenues, a number that should continue to grow as MKC pursues local demand for spices.

That growth should help to support bigger dividend payouts in the next quarter.

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-- Written by Jonas Elmerraji in Baltimore.

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At the time of publication, author had no positions in stocks mentioned.

Jonas Elmerraji is the editor and portfolio manager of the Rhino Stock Report, a free investment advisory that returned 15% in 2008. He is a contributor to numerous financial outlets, including Forbes and Investopedia, and has been featured in Investor's Business Daily, in Consumer's Digest and on MSNBC.com.

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