Dividend Champions For December 2013

The Dividend Champions spreadsheet and PDF have been updated through 11/29/13 and are available here. 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. All's Well That Ends As we enter the last month of the year, only a handful of additions or deletions are expected in December, so the number of CCC companies is expected to finish 2013 at about 475, before a flood of new Challengers pushes the population to about 500 companies by the end of February and more than 550 by mid-2014. I'm already logging announcements of increases by "Near-Challengers" that will increase their dividends in January, so those are being added to the ranks of the Challengers. (When the Pay Date... Read more