8 Companies With Consistent Dividend Growth Over 20%

If dividend investing is the slow and steady path to wealth, than dividend growth is the engine providing the power. In order for the process to work correctly, investors must choose companies that consistently raise their dividends faster than inflation. Historically, we can assume inflation will average, over the long term, somewhere between 3 - 4%. Finding companies that grow their dividends well above this benchmark is one of the most important aspects of dividend investing.The following companies have not just grown their dividends consistently, but have done so at an above average rate of over 20% compounded over the years. Anyone who purchased these companies at a fair price over the past decade has seen their yield on cost rise to well above the yield on Treasurys, while also banking some capital gains.*Note: For those companies without 10 years of dividend increases, the 5 year CAGR was... Read more