3 Dividend Increases: March 19-23, 2018

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. Companies that regularly raise their dividends show confidence in the potential growth of future earnings.

I monitor a selection of the CCC stocks using several screens to limit the number of stocks to monitor. For example, I consider only stocks with market caps greater than $500M.

Only three stocks on my watch list announced increases last week. One of these is a DivGro stock.

The top increase is from Horizon Bancorp (HBNC), a company that provides a range of banking services in Northern and Central Indiana and Southwestern and Central Michigan. HBNC announced a substantial increase of 15%. The stock now yields 2.06% at $29.19 per share.

To see details of all the dividend increases announced last week, please read this article at Seeking Alpha. I include three F.A.S.T. Graphs to illustrate the impressive earnings and dividend growth rates of some of these stocks.

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.

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