25 'Overdue' Dividend Increases: Are Cuts on the Horizon?

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 second in a monthly series listing companies whose latest dividend increase might be considered “overdue,” since these companies have gone more than a year since their previous increase, a possible 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.) Some firms regularly go more than a year between increases, so this is only an “early warning” sign that some of them may warrant concern. I hope that this... Read more