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 (HTS: [...]
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 a [...]
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 [...]
You can now screen for dividend stocks using the Motley Fool’s CAPS rating system as a screening criterion. The new CAPS stock screener includes the CAPS rating along with many of the usual financial metrics, and offers preset configurations for “Value,” “Dividend,” “Small Cap,” and “High Growth.”
In today’s article on “5 Dynamic Dividend Stocks,” a [...]
