9 Dividend Increases: October 3-7, 2016

Includes: AFG, EPD, GEL, INTU, IR, LTC, NWN, OZRK, RPM 

Summary

• Companies can only raise their dividends regularly if earnings grow sufficiently.
• One way to identify dividend growth stocks for further analysis is to monitor dividend increases.
• In the past week, nine companies on my watch list announced dividend increases.

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

The list includes 3 stocks with double-digit percentage increases! None of my DivGro stocks announced dividend increases in the past week.

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