Now imagine what would happen if we examined what happened with an original
list of dividend champions, contenders and challengers from 25 years ago.
With a defensive business, proven resilience, and commitment to shareholders, this dividend stock should continue to lead the
pack of dividend champions for several years, if not decades.
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So, without further ado, here is the list
of Dividend Champions as of Sept. 30th, with the highest and lowest one - year and five - year PAAY.
While stocks with 25 years of raising dividends (as in the
case of Dividend Champions) is a great place to start any research, it is possible to find quality high yield dividend growth stocks elsewhere.
The reason I am focusing on these two different
classes of Dividend Champions is because they each provide characteristics that best serve the unique needs of dividend growth investors with different goals and objectives.
Let's assume you had access to a modern - day
equivalent of the Dividend Champions List maintained by David Fish, so you had information on dozens of dividend growth stocks, including their 10 - year DGRs from 1991 - 2001.
I then take the top
third of Dividend Champions based on yield and sort the results based on the top third with the lowest payout ratio.
Since 1985, if less than 20 % of companies that raised dividends for five or more consecutive years were able to maintain that record for 25 years, it is quite clear that in the next 25 years a much lower
percentage of Dividend Champions, Contenders and Challengers will be able to do so in the future.
In this article, I review a specific hand - selected
list of Dividend Champions that I believe are reasonably priced and therefore capable of generating above - average returns at below - average risk.
Actually, the most up - to - date list of dividend growth stocks is the list
of dividend champions, maintained by Dave Fish.
That compares favorably to
all of the Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers, whose average D / E is 1.0.
One thing I want to add — I would encourage you to look at the list
of dividend champions, as opposed to the aristocrats.
Both of these articles and their lists
of Dividend Champions are offered as candidates for long - term ownership of the businesses behind the stocks.
Therefore, in order to test this theory, I am going to provide long - term historical earnings and price correlated F.A.S.T. Graphs ™ on
all of the Dividend Champions and Challengers that I have identified as fairly valued research candidates by surveying those lists of dividend achievers.
And therefore, since a defensive investor is by definition one that is wary of taking risk, it would only seem logical that dividend paying equities, especially Dividend Champions, possess the safety characteristics they desire, at least according to Ben Graham and yours truly (here is a link to David Fish's list
of dividend champions).
Do you own shares of
either of these Dividend Champions?
In particular, many investors seem to be under the impression that they can confidently purchase stocks from a list
of Dividend Champions, Contenders and Challengers, sit back and simply enjoy «dividends for life,» on a stress - free path to riches.