4 Dividend Champions With Impressive Profitability

If you’re considering dividend stocks for sources of income, be sure to also consider the strength of company profitability. If a company’s profitability suffers, its dividend yield may be in danger of being discontinued. Here we ran a screen on dividend champions – companies that have consistently maintained and raised their dividend yield for the past 25 years. We screened these companies for those that are also highly profitable, beating their industry peers on gross, operating and pretax margins.Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the 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 month. To access a complete analysis of this list's recent performance,... Read more