Dividend Growth Stocks: Companies Creating Real Wealth With Higher Cash Dividends

A stock dividend, also known as a "scrip dividend," is a dividend payment made with stock instead of cash. Sometimes when companies are tight on cash, they will declare and pay a stock dividend in lieu of a cash dividend. Most shareholders feel like they are getting something. But are they really? In short, a stock dividend is nothing more than a glorified stock split. At the end of the process, the shareholder has more shares that are worth less. Like a stock split, you can not create value by issuing paper and getting nothing in exchange. This week we only have two notable companies that recently decided to raise their cash dividends: Bank of the Ozarks, Inc. (OZRK) operates as the bank holding company for Bank of the Ozarks that provides a range of retail and commercial banking services. July 1st the company increased its quarterly dividend 5.6% to... Read more