10 Dividend Growth Stocks For August 2018

The CCC list is a wonderful source for dividend growth investors. It contains more than 800 stocks trading on U.S. exchanges with at least 5 consecutive years of increased dividend payments. The accompanying spreadsheet provides fundamental data.

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

This month's top 10 list contains five 7-star and five 6-star stocks.

This month I used the new screener available at Simply Safe Dividends to look for very safe stocks with positive free cash flow in each of the last 10 years. Additionally, I screened for stocks with low or very low betas and stocks that have paid a dividend for at least 20 years.

I added stocks produced by the screener (that also appear in the CCC list) to the dividend growth stocks in my portfolio. In all, there were 76 candidates.

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

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