Coca-Cola (KO) continues to benefit from its strategy to sell more soft drinks with less sugar, such as the sugar-free version Coca-Cola Zero. In the third quarter that (again) led to higher revenues for the American soft drinks/ beverage company. Coca-Cola’s sales over the past three months increased by 8% to $ 9.5 billion. In…
European Dividend Aristocrat Nestle SA reported on Thursday that its nine-month sales rose to 3.7%. The Swiss consumer-goods giant also said that it will distribute up to 20 billion Swiss francs ($20.07 billion) to its shareholders between 2020 and 2022. This will happen primarily through buybacks while maintaining its dividend policy. Nestle SA current dividend…
Shares in Danone (BN.FR) fell sharply Friday after the food company adjusted its guidance to lower sales growth expectations. The French food company said it was adjusting its guidance to lower expectations for its like-for-like sales growth in 2019. Danone’s sales is 6.42 billion euros ($7.13 billion), up from EUR6.19 billion the year previous and…
The second half of October will be a busy month as far as earnings reports, especially for most of the US dividend stocks and including several dividend aristocrats. Below a selection of key companies reporting on earnings the coming two weeks: Date Company Oct.18th PPG Industries Oct.18th American Express Oct.18th Philip Morris Oct.19th Honeywell Oct.19th…
A. O. Smith (AOS) declares $0.24 per share quarterly dividend, 9.1% increase from prior dividend of $0.22. This marked the 27th consecutive year of dividend growth for the company. The dividend will be payable November 15, 2019, for shareholders (Record date: October 31, 2019) The current dividend yield hovers around 2.0%, the payout ratio is…
The international dividend portfolio continues to reach new all-time-highs in euros and in US-dollars by end of September 2019. Total portfolio value in USD is 515,970 and 471,550 in euro. Performance Update Despite a presidential impeachment process, trade tensions between the United States, China, and Europe, slowing economic growth, particularly in Germany, and lack of…
S&P Europe 350® Dividend Aristocrats® measure the performance of S&P Europe 350 constituents that have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 10 consecutive years. The index benchmark is the S&P Europe 350 index Like the (US) Dividend Aristocrats “big brother”, the European Dividend Aristocrats also tend to outperform its…
Imperial Brands is a member of the European dividend aristocrats list and interesting for dividend investors given the dividend yield of around 7% and a dividend growth rate of +10% over the last 10 years. Imperial Brands (IMB) lost 13.95% in September, the stock plunged on profit warning as the U.S. vaping crisis deepens. (see…
he 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…
Regardless of slowing economic growth, ongoing trade tensions and a presidential impeachment inquiry, U.S. equities recovered in September to end the third quarter up 1.7%. Year-to-date the S&P 500 is up around 21% and ended September +1.87%. The Dogs of the Dow are only up 10.74% in 2019, excluding dividends. The average dividend yield for…