Dividend Stocks to Add to Your Portfolio

These four popular stocks look ready to increase their dividend payouts to shareholders in the weeks ahead.

Las Vegas Sands (LVS) - Get Report , a casino operator, looks primed for a hike to its 72-cent quarterly payout. Sands' current yield is 5.15%. For TJX (TJX) - Get Report , which runs the T.J. Maxx discount store chain, a balance sheet full of dry powder gives it the ability to hike its 1.4% dividend yield in 2017.

After four straight quarters of a 56-cent dividend, Southern (SO) - Get Report looks ready to raise its 4.6% yield.  And as its dividend payout ratio has plummeted amid higher profits, Waste Management (WM) - Get Report looks likely to hike its 2.36% yield in the month ahead.

This article was written by a staff member of TheStreet.