As mentioned in our newsletter, Dividend Aristocrat Walgreen Boots (WBA) is one of the laggards in 2019 and down almost 13% year-to-date. Last week, WBA already managed expectations by lowering growth earnings in fiscal 2020 because of the low reimbursement rates for prescription drugs, and competition from online retailers such as Amazon.com (AMZN). According to…
AbbVie (ABBV) raised its quarterly dividend by 10.3% to $1.18 a share from $1.07 a share. The new dividend will be payable Feb. 14 to shareholders of record on Jan. 15. At the current stock price of $ 81.75 (as of November 1, 2019), the (forward) dividend yield is 5.77%. This is a high yield,…
Sustainable investing and environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategies are a hot topic at the moment on Wall Street. The ESG ETF assets are already more than double in 2019 and another sign of the increasing popularity of ESG, is the launch of E-mini S&P 500 ESG Index futures, by the CME Group on…
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…
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…
U.S. equities continued their way up in October, helped by optimism around trade talks with China, a good earnings-season, and easing from the Fed. The S&P 500 gained 2.17% and year-to-date the S&P 500 is up around 23% and just below all-time high records. The Dogs of the Dow are only up 11.8% in 2019,…
Dividend aristocrat VF Corporation (Ticker: VFC) is increasing its quarterly dividend by 12%, as reported on Friday. VF Corp. declares $0.48 per share quarterly dividend, 11.6% increase from prior dividend of $0.43. The next payout will be on December 20, 2019 (Record day: December 10, 2019). This is a dividend increase for the 48th consecutive…
American Electric Company Inc. (ticker: AEP), is one of America’s largest electrical utilities, is increasing its quarterly dividend of $0.70 per share. This is an increase of 4.5% compared to the previous quarter ($0.67). On a yearly bases, the total dividend distribution to its shareholders is $ 2.80. The current 3 years dividend growth rate…
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…