18 High Dividend Yield Utilities With Consistent Growth

Recently, we discussed the Services stocks that displayed consistent dividend growth over the past 5 years. Defensive investors should look for high dividend yields and long records of dividend payments for each high dividend yielding stock. We believe the stocks that are able to increase dividends can be appealing to conservative investors that demand consistency and some inflation protection. Some sectors, like the Utilities sector, contain many high dividend yielding stocks that have achieved consistency in dividend payments. We compiled a list of US Utilities stocks with high dividend yields and consistent dividend growth. The market data are sourced from Fidelity. All companies on this list increased their dividend payments every year since 2005. These stocks have market capitalization above $1 billion and 12-month dividend yield of at least 4%. Dividend Yield 5-Year Average Div. Growth 52-Week Return AmeriGas Partners Inc. APU 6.78% 4.99% 15.63% Suburban Propane Partners SPH 6.67%... Read more