12 Dividend Increases: January 18 To January 22, 2016

I monitor dividend increases for stocks in my watch list of dividend growth stocks to identify candidates for further analysis. Companies that regularly increase dividends show confidence in future earnings growth potential.
Another reason I monitor dividend increases is so I can make yield on cost (YoC) adjustments for stocks in own. I also like to track projected annual dividend income, a measure of the dividend income potential of the portfolio over the next 12 months.
In the past week, 12 of the companies on my watch list announced dividend increases.
The table is sorted by last column, %Incr. Dividends are annualized and in US$, unless otherwise indicated. Yield indicates the new dividend yield for the market close Price in US$ on the date listed. Yrs are years of consecutive dividend increases, while 5-year DGR is the compound annual growth rate of the dividend over a five-year period.
Dividend Increases: January 18-22, 2016
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In the table, two DivGro holdings that announced dividend increases in this period are highlighted:
• Intel Corporation (Nasdaq: INTC) Founded in 1968, INTC is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation with headquarters in Santa Clara, California. The company makes motherboard chipsets, network interface controllers and integrated circuits, flash memory, graphic chips, embedded processors and other devices related to... Read more