The Dividend Kings are the best in class with respect to dividend endurance. A Dividend King is a stock with 50 or more consecutive years of dividend increases. The Dividend Kings list can be a good source for selecting dividend stocks. While the S&P Dividend Aristocrats Index consists of over 60 stocks, which includes companies…
The Dividend Aristocrats are companies of the S&P 500 that have paid steadily increasing dividends for at least 25 years have outperformed the broader market over time, like in 2018. This article lists the current Dividend Aristocrat constituents and their recent returns By showing the recent performance of the Dividend Aristocrats, some active dividend growth…
Per July 1st , European dividend aristocrat Wolters Kluwer (WKL.AS, ISIN: NL0000395903 ) will be added to our International Dividend Portfolio. At the moment of writing Wolters Kluwers N.V. is trading at €69.50 and forward dividend yield is 1.70%. Read more in our July newsletter (coming soon) and the following related articles, Wolters Kluwer keeps…
US Dividend Aristocrat Ross Stores (ROST) reported a net loss of $306 million during its fiscal first quarter. The company also suspended its quarterly dividend. Ross Stores just made it this year to the list of aristocrats and will be removed by July 1st. see S&P Dow Jones announcement
The Montreal-based regional bank Laurentian Bank of Canada (LB) slashed its quarterly dividend, the first payout cut by a large Canadian lender in almost three decades. The dividend is reduced from 67 cents to 40 cents, a 40% reduction. Hence, Laurentian Bank of Canada will be deleted from the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index. This…
Dividend aristocrat Target Corporation (TGT) increases its quarterly dividend from $0.66 to $0.68 which is a 3.0% increase. The dividend is payable September 10th, 2020, to shareholders of record at the close of business on August 19th, 2020. The 3rd quarter dividend will be the company’s 212th consecutive dividend paid since October 1967 when the…
Dividend Aristocrat Realty Income Corporation (O) recently announced its 107th common stock monthly dividend increase, since 1994. The company will now pay $0.2350 per share compared with the previous monthly dividend of $0.2330. The increased dividend will be paid on July 15, to shareholders on record as of July 1, 2020. The new annual dividend…
S&P Dow Jones Indices announces the following index change to the S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats Index as a result of the monthly dividend review. The changes will be effective prior to the open of trading on Monday, June 1, 2020. The following Canadian dividend stocks will be removed from this index: Alaris Royalty Corp (AD)…
We continue our updates for the detailed dividend stock pages, as of today, additional estimated future total return data is available for the dividend kings and dividend aristocrats in our database. The individual pages now include the following estimated future total return overview. Furthermore, the estimated EPS growth for the next 5 years is also…
The Dividend Aristocrats are a select group of currently 66 S&P 500 stocks with 25+ years of consecutive dividend increases. These 66 are large, US companies that have historically provided (slightly) better performance and (slightly) lower volatility than the S&P 500 as a whole. They are the ‘upper class’ dividend growth stocks and a great…