5 High Yield Dividend Growth Stocks

One of the basic and most important tenets of dividend investing is to seek stocks with a history of increasing dividends. Ideally, such stocks would also have a high dividend to reward investors for holding the stock. Starting with this basic premise, I used stockscreen123 to generate a list of high yield, dividend growth stocks which meet additional fundamental factors. I began by looking for stocks yielding at least 3% with a 1, 3, and 5 year annual dividend growth rate of at least 5%. The goal is to find stocks which pay a relatively "high" yield--given that 5 year Treasuries yield near 2%--with a recent history of increasing the dividend.... Read more