Heavyweight Contenders: Dividend Stocks With a Decade of Growth, Yielding Over 3%

The dividend contenders is a list of all the companies that have paid increasing dividends every year for at least 10 years. Created and maintained by David Fish, this list is a must have for any serious dividend growth investor. You can find it at dripinvesting.org. In order to narrow down the list for further investigation, I cut any stock yielding less than 3% (my preferred entry point). So here they are, all 64 dividend contenders with yields over 3%, ordered from highest to lowest current yield. Vector Group LTD (VGR) Current Price - $18.65 Current Yield - 8.58% Years of Dividend Growth - 13 The Company is principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the United States through its Liggett Group LLC (Liggett) and Vector Tobacco Inc. (Vector Tobacco) subsidiaries, and the real estate business through its New Valley LLC subsidiary, which focuses to acquire additional... Read more