19 Dividend Increases: February 6-10, 2017

One way to identify dividend growth stocks for further analysis is to monitor dividend increases. Companies that regularly increase dividends show confidence in the potential growth of future earnings.
This week, 19 companies on my watch list announced dividend increases, including 3 of my DivGro holdings. The following table provides a summary of these increases.
The table is sorted by percentage increase, %Incr. Dividends are annualized and in US dollars, unless otherwise indicated. Yield is the new dividend yield for the market close Price on the date listed. Yrs are years of consecutive dividend increases, while 5-yr DGR is the compound annual growth rate of the dividend over a 5-year period. 1-yr %Incr is the percentage increase from the year-ago dividend. (Some companies increase their dividends more than once a year, so this puts the most recent dividend increase in context).
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• Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) EFX provides information solutions and human resources business process outsourcing services for businesses, governments and consumers in the United States and internationally. The company serves customers in a wide range of industries, including financial services, human resources, telecommunications, retail, automotive, and utilities. It also provides services to state and federal governments. EFX was founded in 1899 and is headquartered in... Read more