Thursday, December 27, 2012

25 'Overdue' Dividend Increases: Streaks In Doubt? - Seeking Alpha

25 'Overdue' Dividend Increases: Streaks In Doubt? - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp ) I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, but some companies go longer before boosting their dividends, and this can raise concerns about their streaks of increases.

Saturday, December 15, 2012

Dividend Challengers: 18 Increases Expected In The Next 11 Weeks - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Challengers: 18 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.

Jumping the Fiscal Cliff

Anticipating the possible changes in dividend taxation, it appears that many companies that would normally announce increases in January have accelerated those into 2012, hence the relatively small number of January dates below. But a healthy crop of expected increases is expected during February, which coincides with the "forward look" of about 11 weeks for this article.

Dividend Contenders: 19 Increases Expected By The End Of February - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Contenders: 19 Increases Expected By The End Of February - Seeking Alpha: In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp ), 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.

Jumping The Fiscal Cliff

Anticipating the possible changes in dividend taxation, it appears that many companies that would normally announce increases in January have accelerated those into 2012, hence the relatively small number of January dates below. But a healthy crop of expected increases are expected during February, which coincides with the "forward look" of about 11 weeks for this article.

Dividend Champions: 14 Increases Expected By February 28 - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Champions: 14 Increases Expected By February 28 - 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.

Jumping the Fiscal Cliff

Anticipating the possible changes in dividend taxation, it appears that many companies that would normally announce increases in January have accelerated those into 2012, hence the relatively small number of January dates below. But a healthy crop of expected increases are expected during February, which coincides with the "forward look" of about 11 weeks for this article.

Thursday, December 6, 2012

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXXIII - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXXIII - Seeking Alpha: Dividend Contenders Smackdown XXXIII

In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp ) by market capitalization/dividend growth and, last month, using a "back to basics" approach.

(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.)

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXXIII - Seeking Alpha

Dividend Champions Smackdown XXXIII - Seeking Alpha: Dividend Champions Smackdown XXXIII

In the most recent installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions (which can be found here: http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp) by market capitalization/dividend growth and, last month, using a "back to basics" approach.

(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.)