More Popular Dividend Growth Stocks

In my previous post, I presented a portfolio containing 31 of the most popular dividend growth stocks, based on the holdings of 20 different dividend growth portfolios.

To compile the portfolio, I simply counted the number of appearances of each stock in all portfolios and sorted them by decreasing frequency. I arbitrarily made a cutoff at 7 appearances, resulting in a portfolio of 31 stocks. Collectively, the 20 portfolios hold 205 different stocks, which means that 174 stocks were cut.

One of my readers, Passive Income Pursuit, expressed interest in seeing the rest of the stocks. At first, I wondered if there would be value in sharing such a huge list. After all, the 174 stocks are less popular than those that made it into the portfolio of 31...

Here's a frequency histogram of the appearances: 

There are 126 appearances of unique stocks, so the left-most bar is cropped. I don't think listing these stocks has much value. See my 224 watch list stocks, which, in my view, are more interesting...


The gold bars in the frequency histogram represent the 31 most popular stocks, as presented in my previous post. The blue bars are the next tier of stocks, which I'm sharing in some detail in this post. These stocks appear in fewer portfolios, but that doesn't mean they're inferior stocks. In fact, there may be some hidden gems among them that only a few dividend growth bloggers have "discovered" so far.

6	Clorox Company HCP Inc Illinois Tools Works Omega Healthcare Investors The Bank of Nova Scotia General Electric Company Vodafone Group Plc Wells Fargo & Co	(CLX) (HCP) (ITW) (OHI) (BNS) (GE) (VOD) (WFC)	| growth 36 yrs | yield 3.27% @ $86.77 | 5-yr DGR 9.4% | growth 29 yrs | yield 5.68% @ $38.35 | 5-yr DGR 2.9% | growth 39 yrs | yield 2.02% @ $82.23 | 5-yr DGR 6.3% | growth 12 yrs | yield 6.16% @ $31.80 | 5-yr DGR 9.3% | yield 3.90% @ $63.55 | yield 3.45% @ $25.50 | yield 7.32% @ $41.26 | yield 2.61% @ $46.05
5	Becton, Dickinson and Co General Dynamics Corporation Genuine Parts Company Kimberly Clark Corp Leggett & Platt, Inc Raytheon Company SYSCO Corporation Abbott Laboratories Cisco Systems, Inc Kraft Foods Group Inc	(BDX) (GD) (GPC) (KMB) (LEG) (RTN) (SYY) (ABT) (CSCO) (KRFT)	| growth 42 yrs | yield 1.89% @ $115.10 | 5-yr DGR 12.2% | growth 22 yrs | yield 2.06% @ $108.98 | 5-yr DGR 10.3% | growth 57 yrs | yield 2.65% @ $86.79 | 5-yr DGR 7.0% | growth 41 yrs | yield 3.09% @ $108.90 | 5-yr DGR 6.9% | growth 42 yrs | yield 3.75% @ $32.03 | 5-yr DGR 3.2% | growth 9 yrs | yield 2.25% @ $97.59 | 5-yr DGR 14.4% | growth 44 yrs | yield 3.23% @ $35.95 | 5-yr DGR 4.9% | yield 2.21% @ $39.79 | yield 3.47% @ $21.92 | yield 3.81% @ $55.17
4	Automatic Data Processing Deere & Company Union Pacific Corporation Apple Inc AbbVie Inc Phillips 66 (USA) Bank Unilever plc	(ADP) (DE) (UNP) (AAPL) (ABBV) (PSX) (TD) (UL)	| growth 39 yrs | yield 2.47% @ $77.72 | 5-yr DGR 8.4% | growth 10 yrs | yield 2.40% @ $84.97 | 5-yr DGR 13.4% | growth 7 yrs | yield 2.04% @ $178.50 | 5-yr DGR 26.1% | yield 2.31% @ $527.67 | yield 3.30% @ $50.91 | yield 2.09% @ $74.74 | yield 3.61% @ $44.71 | yield 3.51% @ $40.99
3	Avista Corp BHP Billiton plc Caterpillar Inc CSX Corporation Kellogg Company Lowe's Companies, Inc Mattel, Inc 3M Co Nestle SA Owens & Minor, Inc Visa Inc Verizon Communications Inc ENSCO plc JPMorgan Chase & Co Novartis AG Ventas, Inc	(AVA) (BBL) (CAT) (CSX) (K) (LOW) (MAT) (MMM) (NSRGY) (OMI) (V) (VZ) (ESV) (JPM) (NVS) (VTR)	| growth 11 yrs | yield 4.32% @ $29.43 | 5-yr DGR 12.1% | growth 11 yrs | yield 3.68% @ $64.12 | 5-yr DGR 10.6% | growth 20 yrs | yield 2.48% @ $96.70 | 5-yr DGR 8.4% | growth 9 yrs | yield 2.18% @ $27.46 | 5-yr DGR 18.1% | growth 9 yrs | yield 3.06% @ $60.16 | 5-yr DGR 6.7% | growth 51 yrs | yield 1.42% @ $50.82 | 5-yr DGR 15.6% | growth 5 yrs | yield 4.09% @ $37.15 | 5-yr DGR 13.9% | growth 56 yrs | yield 2.55% @ $134.34 | 5-yr DGR 4.9% | growth 13 yrs | yield 2.71% @ $75.01 | 5-yr DGR 13.6% | growth 16 yrs | yield 2.88% @ $34.75 | 5-yr DGR 12.5% | growth 7 yrs | yield 0.71% @ $226.28 | 5-yr DGR 45.9% | growth 9 yrs | yield 4.46% @ $47.50 | 5-yr DGR 3.5% | yield 5.70% @ $52.61 | yield 2.68% @ $56.69 | yield 3.29% @ $82.55 | yield 4.64% @ $62.44

Highlighted are the tickers of stocks I own in DivGro.

These stocks are not strictly dividend growth stocks, as they do not appear in Dave Fish's CCC list as stocks with 5 or more consecutive years of dividend increases. 

As a bonus, I'm including the tickers of stocks in the right-most red bar of the frequency histogram. These are stocks that appear in only two of the 20 portfolios:

ADM, CL, CMI, DRI, ED, FDO, GSK, HAS, HRS, LTC, NUE, OKE, PBCT, PNY, PPL, PSEC, RDS.B, ROST, SBSI, SO, TEVA, TU, UHT, UTX, WM, WU

Full Disclosure: Long BBL, CAT, GD