Dividend Champions For September 2018

About the Dividend Champions List The Dividend Champions list is a monthly publication tracking companies with a history of consistently increasing their dividends. Wider in scope than the well-known S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats and Nasdaq Dividend Achievers, the Dividend Champions covers all companies listed on exchanges in the United States. In order to be included in the list, the annual split-adjusted dividend payout of a company (based on calendar year) must be consistently increasing. The Dividend Champions list is separated into three categories based on how long companies have maintained the streak of annually increasing dividends: Champions (25 or more years), Contenders (10 to 24 years), and Challengers (5 to 9 years). The Dividend Champions list was created by David Fish in 2007 and is currently maintained by Justin Law. The Dividend Champions list may be obtained for free for personal, non-commercial use from here. Data in the Dividend Champions list is provided “as is” with no guarantees of accuracy, completeness, or timeliness.
Mid-Summer Respite Compared to the record number of dividend increases in July, August was fairly uneventful. A total of 48 companies declared higher dividends in the past month, with an average increase of 9.7% over their previous payouts. The latest version is available at the DRIP Investing website and is also attached below:
U.S.DividendChampions8-31-2017.xlsx
The CCC universe now spans 896 companies. The average... Read more