Do Dividend Increases Have Seasonality?

The Dividend Champions spreadsheet and PDF have been updated through 5/31/11 and are available here. N ote that all references to Champions mean companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. Anticipating Dividend Increases After I recently modified a series of articles about dividend increases that were expected in the near future from a monthly to a twice-monthly schedule (and extended the “forward look” from the next month to the next 10 weeks), I wondered about the possible seasonality of such increases. It appeared that the number of increases during the summer was lower than what I had seen earlier in the year. As a reminder, I should state that I believe the vast majority of companies with long streaks of increasing dividends tend to boost their payouts about the same time each year. During... Read more