Top Dividend Growth Stocks By Sector

Last Saturday, I published the September edition of my 10 Dividend Growth Stocks series. The top-ranked stock this month is Comcast (CMCSA), one of five Consumer Discretionary sector stocks in the 10 top-ranked stocks.
I rank a selection of the CCC stocks every month and present 10 stocks worthy of consideration. This month I ranked 240 CCC stocks, significantly more than I usually do. The ranking process is quite involved, as I manually collect data from several sources. Prior to this month's ranking of 240 CCC stocks, I've limited the number to about 50 stocks at a time.
One advantage of ranking so many stocks is that I can review the top-ranked stocks by sector. Dividend growth investors should find these sector-based lists informative, especially for purposes of diversification.
Recap of Ranking Process Details on the composition of the 240 CCC stocks can be found in the linked article above. In essence, the list contains quality dividend growth stocks with established track records of paying and regularly increasing dividends.
Overwhelmingly, the stocks are dividend growth stocks with at least 10 consecutive years of dividend increases and have market caps of at least $1 billion. Most of the stocks have current yields of at least 1%, although I gave a free pass to a few dividend growth stocks in my DivGro portfolio that yield less than 1%.
Collectively, the 240 stocks have returned 17.4% over the last year and have outperformed the S&P 500 by... Read more