"Dividend hikes" refers to the increased amounts of money that companies pay out to their shareholders as a portion of their profits. It signifies that the company is raising the regular payments made to investors as a way to reward them for investing in the company.
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As a result, management expects revenue and cash flow to increase enough to support
dividend hikes of at least 8 % per year through 2021.
I expect this income growth will slow down for the next couple of months as majority of my holdings have already announced
dividend hikes for the year.
I expect this income growth will slow down for the next couple of months as a majority of my holdings have already
announced dividend hikes for the year.
Rising dividends not only make a stock more attractive to new income investors, but
steady dividend hikes also reward existing investors on shares purchased at lower prices in the past.
I believe the company looks well positioned to continue growing while rewarding shareholders
with dividend hikes.
Regardless, this batch of tech companies has been showing us the money over the past several years with double digit
percent dividend hikes.
I'll buy more if it's yielding 3.6 %, which could happen soon with a
likely dividend hike happening this week and / or further decline in the stock price.
Its yield can easily climb to 5 % or even higher in the next few quarters as it continues to make
modest dividend hikes.
Regardless, this batch of tech companies has been showing us the money over the past several years with double digit
percent dividend hikes.
Thus, the money make from the combo deal will be used to pay toward the debts, in other words, we can not expect any juicy
dividend hikes from Burger King.
And if MMM ups the payout in 2018 — and there's no reason to think it won't — that'll mark the 60th consecutive year of
annual dividend hikes.
It's a real life reality for people that own Coca - Cola, Colgate - Palmolive, and Johnson & Johnson because those companies have been giving
investors dividend hikes for over half a century.
Growth will be in the low single digit range, so I wouldn't be too surprised to see Coca Cola's
future dividend hikes to be around 3 % per year.
Fortunately, the vast majority of CCC companies have a habit of announcing
dividend hikes about the same time each year.
For Schwab, the company's tangible book value has increased 207 % since the
last dividend hike in 2008.
The best part about owning a stock like 3M is that while you can expect
small dividend hikes even during tough times, the rewards get bigger when the business thrives.
Each time I sold my temporary position in my RRSP last month, I felt sad about getting rid of this fairly price (P / E ~ 16X) pipeline asset play yielding almost 6 %, with a likely 10 %
dividend hike coming this Thursday.
At the very least, I plan to be a shareholder in my RRSP this Thursday when I anticipate an announcement of the previously
telegraphed dividend hike.
Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) recently announced a 7.1 %
dividend hike marking 56 years of consecutive growth.
However, Claymore is exploring the possibility of readmitting financially strong companies that
postponed dividend hikes temporarily during the financial crisis but then resumed raising them.
And don't forget: steady
dividend hikes not only make a stock more alluring to new income investors, but also reward existing investors with increasingly higher yields on shares purchased at lower prices in the past.
If SanDisk continues to surprise, that suggests it could be a very good candidate for a
timely dividend hike above its current yield of 1.8 %.
There were some setbacks regarding organic growth (Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton slashed their dividend payments) but also some very
substantial dividend hikes in 2016.
Given the latest
solid dividend hike of 5 % I am quite optimistic that stock count and my YoC will steadily rise over the years,
I am particularily pleased about several very
high dividend hikes that contributed to that strong passive income growth (just have a look at the list with businesses in my portfolio that increase their payouts in my previous post).
That would mean last years DDM calculations for a fair share price are still valid, as long as last years assumed div.growth rate is in par with
todays dividend hike.
With new purchases and
few dividend hikes in July, my estimated yearly passive income increased to $ 8224.
With new purchases and last
month dividend hikes, my estimated yearly income has grown to $ 7981, with year to date gain of 13.0 %.
Until then, CMP will continue dealing with (temporary) headwinds related to its salt and specialty fertilizer businesses, which could cause its
next dividend hike to come in under 10 %.
In the case of Fortis, that dividend yield is a solid 4.01 %, and Fortis has an established precedent of consecutive
annual dividend hikes that spans well over four decades.
As per its habit since nearly the beginning of this decade, engineering company Cummins (NYSE: CMI) has enacted its annual
quarterly dividend hike.
It's a real life reality for people that own Coca - Cola, Colgate - Palmolive, and Johnson & Johnson because those companies have been giving
investors dividend hikes for over half a century.
Growth will be in the low single digit range, so I wouldn't be too surprised to see Coca Cola's
future dividend hikes to be around 3 % per year.
With a
recent dividend hike of 17 %, a dividend payout ratio of only 25 %, and projected earnings growth of over 10 % next year, Discover Financial Services has plenty of room for continued dividend growth.
Great purchases and
nice dividend hikes The compounding machine is already in action on your side
However, the company doesn't leave much to be desired in terms of dividend growth: Nike has more than doubled dividend payments in the last five years, including a 14 %
dividend hike for 2016.