10 Dividend Growth Stocks For May 2018

The CCC list is a wonderful source for dividend growth investors. Compiled and updated every month by David Fish, the CCC list contains U.S. companies with at least 5 consecutive years of higher dividend payments. The accompanying spreadsheet provides key statistics of the CCC stocks.

In my monthly 10 Dividend Growth Stocks series, I identify 10 CCC stocks for further research. To create the list, I rank a selection of the CCC stocks and assign a 7-star rating to each stock. Stocks rated 5 stars or better are worthy of further analysis.

This month, I used a new screener to select candidate stocks from the CCC list. This article introduces the new screener as well as the top 10 ranked stocks for May.

The new CCC screener is one I prototyped to simplify the process of trimming the CCC list. The screener allows me to set value ranges for up to twenty different fundamental metrics and to extract matching CCC stocks.

The screener produced a remarkable list of twenty stocks — and a few surprises, too! Six of the twenty stocks are stocks I already own in my DivGro portfolio. The list is dominated by two sectors, Consumer Discretionary and Industrials, and eleven of the twenty stocks are Dividend Challengers.

For this month's top 10 analysis, I decided to add the twenty CCC stocks to the dividend growth stocks in my portfolio. In all, this created a list of 62 candidates.

To see the top 10 ranked stocks for May 2018, please read this article at Seeking Alpha.

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