Dividend Champions For June 2013

Published Sun, 02 Jun 2013 11:43:44 -0400 on Seeking Alpha

The Dividend Champions spreadsheet and PDF have been updated through 5/31/13 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 Column Added At least two articles in the past week by fellow SA Contributors mentioned the use of the past five years' earnings-per-share growth in their screening processes. Since earnings are the source of dividends, this idea seems to make a lot of sense, and since the metric is readily available at FinViz, I decided to add a new column to display that data. You can now see that data as column AF, just to the left of the Estimated 5-year Earnings Per Share (percentage) growth. I think it provides... Read more