Top Dividend Stocks With High Dividend Growth Rates

Many investors, such as Warren Buffett, praise defensive investing. As Buffett's mentor Benjamin Graham recommended, investing with a margin of safety can be highly valuable in especially inflationary environments. Defensive investors prefer high dividend yielding stocks since these stocks provide better protection in loose monetary environments. On the other hand, high dividend yields are not the only important criteria that investors seek in defensive stocks. Conservative investors also look for consistent dividend growth in each high dividend yielding stock. We think the stocks that have long records of increasing dividend payments are appealing to defensive investors that demand consistency and some inflation protection. We compiled a list of mega-cap U.S. stocks that achieved consistent dividend growth and paid high current dividend yields. The market data are sourced from Fidelity. All companies in this list increased their dividend payments every year since 2005. These stocks have market capitalizations above $5 billion... Read more