Dividend Champions Smackdown IX Follow-up: Micro-Caps

A few days ago, I screened the Dividend Champions list of companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years (which can be found here), using market capitalization as a primary focus. The result was a diverse selection of Small Cap and Mid Cap companies in each category - Champions, Contenders, and Challengers - that are worthy of further study. (Small Caps are generally described as having a market capitalization (stock price times shares outstanding) between $100 million and $2 billion, whereas Mid Caps range in size from $2 billion to $10 billion in market capitalization.) But that left the question of whether there are any decent “Micro-cap” (under $100 million) companies with dividend streaks. So I decided to screen as follows:... Read more