28 Dividend Increases: April 25-29, 2016 (Part 1: Financials and MLPs)

Includes: AMP • APU • BBT • CFR • CMA • COLB • ETP • FFIN • IVZ • PFG • PFS • PSA • SXL • WBS • WFC • WTBA 

Summary

• Companies that regularly raise their dividend payments show confidence in future earnings growth potential.
• One way to identify dividend growth stocks for further analysis is to monitor dividend increases.
• This past week, 28 companies on my watch list decided to increase their dividends.
• In this article, I present the Financials and a few MLPs that announced dividend increases.
• A follow-up article will present the non-Financials that increased their dividends this past week.

To see the list of Financial sector stocks (and a few MLPs) that announced dividend increases, please read this article at Seeking Alpha.

The list includes 2 stocks that announced increases of more than 10%. None of my DivGro stocks appear in this list.

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