28 'Overdue' Dividend Increases: Reason to Worry?

In compiling the Dividend Champions list (found here) I get to see which companies are nearing the anniversaries of their previous dividend increases. Most of these firms raise their payout about the same time every year, but some companies go longer before boosting their dividends, and this can raise concerns about their streaks of increases. New Series This is the first in what I hope will be a monthly series listing companies whose latest dividend increase might be considered “overdue.” In other words, these companies have gone more than a year since their previous increase, something that might be considered a sign that the dividend (or at least the streak of increases) is in danger. (Note that the dates for these companies appears in Red in the Dividend Champions spreadsheet and PDF.) Of course, some firms regularly go more than a year between increases, so this listing is only an... Read more