A recent post at the dividend investing blog Dividends Value lists the author’s choices for the 10 Best U.S. Dividend Stocks. Not surprisingly these include such stellar dividend payers as Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, 3M and Abbott Laboratories to name a few, as well as four honorable mentions. The post goes on to [...]
Dividends Value notes three companies that raised their dividends this week – one of them a financial! Here’s my quick take on the three dividend stocks mentioned (the stars represent Dividendinvestor.com’s star ranking system – three stars are five years of consecutive dividend increases, four stars are ten, and five stars are 20): Hatteras Financial [...]
In its April issue, Forbes highlights some dividend stock picks of Paul Davis, co-manager of the Schwab Dividend Equity fund. Surprisingly (or maybe not) he’s willing to buy into – or hold onto – stocks of companies that have cut their dividends. His thinking? In these especially tough times a dividend cut today may mean [...]
As a dividend investor, I often focus on companies that have a demonstrated history of dividend growth, like the Dividend Aristocrats. As wonderful as many of these investments are, and may continue to be, I often wonder which companies will join that elite group in the next ten, twenty or thirty years? Dividend Tree was [...]
In an article just posted at TheStockAdvisors.com, investment advisory service IQ Trends offers a look at its current “Timely Ten” high-quality dividend-paying stocks. According to IQ Trends, these are “undervalued” stocks offering good long-term dividend growth, an S&P dividend and earnings quality rating of A- or better, and low debt and payout ratios, as well [...]
