The Dividend Kings Ranked By Quality Score

Dividend Kings are stocks of companies that have increased their annual dividend payouts for 50 or more consecutive years. That's a remarkable feat, as these companies have navigated market crashes,  economic recessions, technological revolutions, and shifting consumer tastes to deliver ever-increasing dividends to investors. 

This article ranks Dividend Kings by quality scores obtained from DVK Quality Snapshots, an elegant and effective system for assessing the quality of dividend growth [DG] stocks. 

Unlike the Dividend Aristocrats, membership of the Dividend Kings is not maintained by a specific organization. Instead, membership is defined loosely based on a stock’s dividend increase streak. 

For this article, I’m using Dividend Radar and Sure Dividend as sources, including all but one of the stocks listed as Dividend Kings by either source. The exception is Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (FMCB), a stock that trades over-the-counter and one we don’t track in Dividend Radar.  

After presenting the Dividend Kings in rank order, I use several screens to identify investment-grade Dividend Kings offering favorable valuations and compelling metrics.

Please read this article at Seeking Alpha and download a spreadsheet with fundamental and added value metrics for the Dividend Kings.

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