12 Dividend Boosting Consumer Stocks

In a previous study, we showed that the average return of high dividend yielding stocks was 13.04% between 1927 and 2009. Many defensive investors love high dividend yielding stocks and consider them as alternatives to 10-year Treasury bonds especially in loose monetary environments. On the other hand, some dividend investors are also attracted to a recent dividend boost as well as high dividend yields. Together with high dividend yields, the stocks that increased their dividend payouts in the last year may look promising to dividend investors in the upcoming inflationary environment. Since we believe a recent dividend growth may suggest further increases in dividend yields, the stocks with dividend boosts not only have decent potential upsides but also are appealing to dividend investors that seek some inflation protection. Some sectors, like Consumer Goods sector, contain many stocks that increased their dividends last year. We compiled a list of mega-cap US... Read more