6 Stocks Seeing Rapid Growth in Dividends and Free Cash Flows
Published Jul 24, 2011 on Seeking Alpha

Cash flow analysis is very important when considering a stock for its dividends. Because free cash flow is the first and most sustainable source for dividend payments, healthy cash flows indicate that a company’s dividend is more sustainable. We ran a screen with this idea in mind, searching for dividend stocks that have seen fast growth in free operating cash flows over the last five years (measured with compound annual growth rate). We then screened for stocks seeing high growth in their dividend, comparing the current year dividend per share estimate to the trailing-twelve-month dividend per share.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... Read more