Dividend Champions Smackdown XIV

Dividend Champions Smackdown XIV In previous installments of the Smackdown series, I screened the Dividend Champions list of companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years (which can be found here) using factors such as yield, payout ratio, and, most recently, the Premium or Discount to the Graham Number. This time, I wanted to focus on the idea of isolating the “longest” and “strongest” dividend streaks, but that left me with two somewhat different ideas about a starting point. So I ended up deciding on a dual approach, which I will label as Smackdown A and Smackdown B in the text that follows: Smackdown A: Strongest of the Longest The first approach begins, as usual, with the Dividend Champions, companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years. My idea of the “strongest” was to focus on companies with the highest rates of... Read more