Dividend Contenders: 14 Increases Expected By The End Of August - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Contenders: 14 Increases Expected By The End Of August - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here) I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again.

Quiet Time Continues

After dividend increases that coincided with annual shareholder meetings in April or May, we started to see a drop-off in the pace of such announcements. Although there are still corporations that will raise their dividend between now and the end of August (which coincides with the "forward look" of about 11 weeks for this article), we'll probably continue to see fewer in the months ahead.

Dividend Challengers: 20 Increases Expected In The Next 11 Weeks - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Challengers: 20 Increases Expected In The Next 11 Weeks - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here) I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again.

Quiet Time Continues

After dividend increases that coincided with annual shareholder meetings in April or May, we started to see a drop-off in the pace of such announcements. Although there are still corporations that will raise their dividend between now and the end of August (which coincides with the "forward look" of about 11 weeks for this article), we'll probably continue to see fewer in the months ahead.

Dividend Champions: 9 Increases Expected By August 31 - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Champions: 9 Increases Expected By August 31 - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here) I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Since most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, I can say with some confidence that they are likely to do so again.

Quiet Time Continues

After dividend increases that coincided with annual shareholder meetings in April or May, we started to see a drop-off in the pace of such announcements. Although there are still corporations that will raise their dividend between now and the end of August (which coincides with the "forward look" of about 11 weeks for this article), we'll probably continue to see fewer in the months ahead.

Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXVII - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Challengers Smackdown XXVII - Seeking Alpha: In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here) starting with Beta and, last month, with the stocks' most recent (percentage) increase.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of five to nine years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

This month, I decided to focus on the relationship between earnings and dividends, since the former should drive the latter. So I screened as follows:

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXVII - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXVII - Seeking Alpha: In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here) starting with Beta and, last month, with stocks' most recent (percentage) increase.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

This month, I decided to focus on the relationship between earnings and dividends, since the former should drive the latter. So I screened as follows:

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXVII - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXVII - Seeking Alpha: In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here) starting with beta and, last month, with the stocks' most recent (percentage) increase.

(Note that I have separated the Champions, Contenders, and Challengers into different articles to fit more closely into the format preferred by Seeking Alpha. Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of five to nie years. I use the same Roman numeral for all three articles.)

This month, I decided to focus on the relationship between earnings and dividends, since the former should drive the latter. So I screened as follows: