20 Dividend Increases: January 15-19, 2018 (Part 2: The Remaining Sectors)

Companies that regularly raise their dividend payments show confidence in future earnings growth potential. In the past week, 20 companies on my watch list declared dividend increases, including two of my DivGro holdings.

Part 1 covered dividend increases for the Energy and Real Estate. This is Part 2, which presents dividend increases for the remaining sectors.

As a bonus, I include a summary of available ex-dividend dates for the next two weeks.

The top increase from sectors other than Energy and Real Estate, is from AO Smith (AOS), a company that manufactures and markets water heaters, boilers, and other products for residential and commercial end markets in the United States, China, Canada, Europe, and India. AOS increased its dividend by an impressive 28.57% and now yields 1.07% at $67.04 per share.

There are five more stocks with double digit percentage increases!

As a bonus, I'm including a summary of ex-dividend dates for the next two weeks. Scan the list of stocks to see if there's a stock you want to pick up before the ex-dividend date so you can grab the next dividend.

Please see this article at Seeking Alpha for details.

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