Dividend Increases: February 22-28, 2020 (Part 2)

This weekly article series covers dividend increase announcements.
A summary table provides relevant data and key statistics.
Part 2 covers the Dividend Challengers. See Part 1 for coverage of the Dividend Champions and Dividend Contenders.
As a bonus, I include ex-dividend dates for the next two weeks.

I monitor dividend increases for stocks in the Dividend Champions List [CCC list].
The CCC list is separated into three categories based on how long companies have maintained their streak of annually increasing dividends: Champions (25+ years), Contenders (10- 24 years), and Challengers (5-9 years).
This past week, 38 companies in the CCC list decided to increase their dividends. The table below covers the Dividend Challengers. Please see Part 1 of this article for coverage of the Dividend Champions and Dividend Contenders.
The table is sorted into sections for Champions, Contenders, and Challengers, and then by the percentage increase, %Incr. Dividends are annualized and in US$, unless otherwise indicated. Yield is the new dividend yield for the market close Price on the date listed. Yrs are years of consecutive dividend increases, while 5-yr DGR is the compound annual growth rate of the dividend over a 5-year period.
Some companies increase their dividends more than once a year, so the last column (1-yr %Incr) indicates the percentage increase from the year-ago dividend.
Summary of Dividend Increases: February 22-28, 2020

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The following dividend increase data are sorted alphabetically by ticker.
Federal Agricultural Mortgage (AGM)
AGM provides a secondary market for various loans made to borrowers in the United States. The company operates through four segments: the Farm & Ranch, USDA Guarantees, Rural Utilities, and Institutional Credit segments. AGM was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Washington, District of Columbia.
On Feb 24, AGM... Read more