9 Large-Cap Rallying Stocks With Increasing Dividends

Dividend increases are generally considered a good signal to the market - it shows that management is sufficiently confident in the company that it can afford to pay an increased dividend in the future. It also directly adds value for shareholders. Here we ran a screen on today’s rallying, large-cap stocks for those that have seen a significant dividend increase between this year’s estimate of dividend per share and last year’s dividend. We also controlled for sustainable payout ratios below 35% and dividend yields around 2% or greater.Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the top six stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.Your browser does not support iframes. We also created a price-weighted index of the stocks mentioned below, and monitored the performance of the list relative to the S&P 500 index over the last... Read more