In addition, OHI's management has announced that they will
not raise the dividend this year (thus stopping their streak of raising the dividend by $.01 / quarter).
If you were assembling a portfolio of dividend payers today, would you ignore the yields of CIBC (5 %) and BMO (4.8 %) simply because they haven't raised their dividends every year since 2005?
Not exact matches
Companies which
not only pay
dividends, but
raise them
year after
year have been shown to perform better overall for investor returns.
This creates an interesting situation where this list doesn't pick up companies for example that have been
raising the
dividend for 5 fiscal
years but
not 5 calendar
years.
A company doesn't have to
raise its
dividend every
year but it should continue to pay them.
Yet, 3M didn't disappoint income investors — it
raised its
dividend by a good 16 % and for the 60th straight
year in 2017, returning $ 2.8 billion of its FCF in
dividends.
As we all know,
dividends, no matter how reliable and dependable, no matter how long they have been paid out, no matter how many
years of consecutive
raises are given are
not guaranteed.
The portfolio annual income grew 4.89 % over the course of the
year and this does
not even reflect
dividend raises announced that would
not take effect until Q1 2018.
That is
not because JNJ has
not been
raising its
dividend, it is because JNJ's price has risen rapidly for the past couple of
years.
The same savings rate as last
year would double the
dividend income, and that's
not including the
dividend raises from companies I already own.
Today, we're going to take a look at
Dividend Achievers — companies with a history of
raising their annual
dividends for a minimum of 10 consecutive
years — that aren't just providing token upticks.
Not only did it consistently pay
dividends, it actually
raised the
dividend every
years.
There aren't many retailers who have
raised their
dividend for more than 50
years in a row, but Lowe's Companies -LSB-...]
There aren't many retailers who have
raised their
dividend for more than 50
years in a row, but Lowe's Companies (LOW) has managed to do just that.
Not only has Nucor never missed a
dividend payment, but it has consistently
raised it for 35
years until the depression of the steel industry from late 2008 until late 2009.
I wonder if XOM is going to maintain
dividends, and if CVX will slide down the list now that they didn't
raise dividends yet this
year.
According to Bloomberg, 18 of the 57 U.S. pipeline operators that haven't declared bankruptcy have cut their
dividends or stopped
raising them in the last
year.
A company can now qualify for the Aristocrats index even if it does
not raise its
dividend for five consecutive
years: it is permitted to «maintain the same
dividend for a maximum of two consecutive
years within that five
year period.»]
With her preference to pay herself
dividends from her business, which do
not qualify for Canada Pension Plan benefits, it makes little sense to
raise her final payout just to add a
year to salary, pay tax and obtain income for filling up her small RRSP space.
Not only have all seven high - yield stock on this list been paying a
dividend for 25
years, they have also been
raising their
dividend 25 consecutive
years.
Nothing is guaranteed, but if you went out today and bought a basket of quality stocks, you would be almost 99 % sure that your investment would be performing 10, 20, 30
years later...
Not only that, you would be expecting
dividend pay
raises in the process.
It is
not a difficult prediction: Fortis has
raised dividends every
year for close to half a century.
In the same way most people don't understand that a latte every day adds up to a lot of extra expenses over the
year, they would miss the entire concept of these «small»
dividend raises and how much fresh capital it would take to achieve those same amounts.
Do you own stock from any companies that normally
raise their
dividends during the first quarter but did
not this
year?
The next three
years there I will
not assume any
dividend growth because the company might choose to lower its debt instead of
raising its
dividends.
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Other companies pay twice annually, or on other schedules, or don't necessarily
raise their
dividends each
year.
For 68 consecutive quarters, HCP had
raised its
dividend, but that changed earlier this
year when HCP announced it would
not increase its common
dividend for the first quarter.