How To Harden Your Dividend Growth Portfolio Against Dividend Cuts

Published Mon, 17 Jul 2017 11:10:00 -0400 on Seeking Alpha

In a recent article, I looked at how an investor's income would have suffered during the financial crisis, after many Dividend Aristocrats cut their dividends. In this article, I'll show how a safer income focused portfolio, consisting of Dividend Aristocrats, could have been built.

The list of Dividend Aristocrats in 2007 looked like this:
Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT) Archer Daniels Midland (NYSE: ADM) Automatic Data Processing (Nasdaq: ADP) Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY) Bank of America (NYSE: BAC) BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT) Bard (C.R. Bard) Inc. (NYSE: BCR) Becton, Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD) Chubb (NYSE: CB) Compass Bancshares Cincinnati Financial (Nasdaq: CINF) Clorox (NYSE: CLX) Comerica (NYSE: CMA) CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) Dover (NYSE: DOV) Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED) Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR) Family Dollar Stores First Horizon National (NYSE: FHN) Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB) Gannett (NYSE: GCI) General Electric (NYSE: GE) W.W. Grainger Inc. (NYSE: GWW) Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI) Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY) Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB) Coca-Cola (KO) Leggett & Platt (NYSE: LEG) Eli Lilly & Co. (NYSE: LLY) Lowe's (NYSE: LOW) McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) 3M Company (NYSE: MMM) Altria (NYSE: MO) M&T Bank (NYSE: MTB) Nucor (NYSE: NUE) PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP) Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG) Progressive (NYSE: PGR) PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG) Regions Financial (NYSE: RF) Rohm... Read more