Dividend Champions For February 2013

The Dividend Champions spreadsheet and PDF have been updated through 1/31/13 and are available at http://dripinvesting.org/Tools/Tools.asp Note that all references to Champions mean companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. "CCC" refers to the universe of Champions, Contenders, and Challengers. New Year, New Growth December may have featured the addition of new columns of data and computations. But January was a month of more subtle changes and the promise of new growth in the universe of dividend raisers. In addition to conditional formatting added to the Yield, Most Recent Increase, and Graham Number columns, I added Supplemental Statistics below the Deletions table on the Changes tab. Meanwhile, 14 new companies were added to the Challengers and Contenders, many as a result of the diligent work of fellow SA Contributor Five Plus... Read more