15 Dividend Increases: October 17-21, 2016

Includes: ACN, ATR, AVX, CTAS, HBAN, HEP, IDA, LECO, MMP, PAG, SCL, SSB, SXT, TLP, WES

Summary

• Companies that regularly increase dividends show confidence in future earnings growth potential.
• I like monitoring dividend increases for stocks on my watch list of dividend growth stocks because I consider such stocks to be candidates for further analysis.
• This week, 15 companies on my watch list decided to increase their dividends.

To see the list of dividend growth stocks that announced dividend increases this week, please read this article at Seeking Alpha.

The list includes 5 stocks with double-digit percentage increases. This time, none my DivGro stocks announced dividend increases.

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