10 Dividend Increases: December 5-9, 2016

Includes: ARE, AXS, BMY, CHRW, DEI, ERIE, GGG, MAA, THG, VTR

Summary

• Companies can only raise their dividends regularly if earnings grow sufficiently.
• Monitoring dividend increases for stocks on my watch is one way to identify candidates for further analysis.
• Recently, 10 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.

While the list includes some solid increases, not a single increase is a double-digit percentage increase! Also, none of my DivGro stocks announced any dividend increases this time.

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