34 Dividend Boosts Break Quarantine 4/27 To 5/4

Barron's Weekly lists the stocks announcing "dividend payment boosts" on the last page of its financial data section. Here is your dogcatcher 4/27-5/4 rundown for 34 proclaimed those past two weeks.
Increases announced the past two weeks ranged $0.0006 per M by EVLMC, to $0.4000 quarterly by JBSS and ranged upward from 0.6% by HCSG and IBM, to 78.6% by NEM.
Financial Services companies with seven hikes, Energy with six, and Industrials and utilities with five each, showed the most increases for the past two weeks.
10 top dividend-boosted stocks ranged from 16.87% to 44.68% in estimated net gains calculated from broker targets (including dividends less broker fees).
$5k invested in the lowest-priced five in this collection of top yield 10 dividend-boosted dogs showed 0.15% LESS net gain than that from $5k invested in all 10. Bigger, higher-priced dividend-boosted dogs barely ruled this half and half April/May two-week booster pack.
Foreword
Any collection of stocks is more clearly understood when subjected to yield-based (dog catcher) analysis, these dividend-boosted batches are perfect for the Arnold dog catcher process. Here is your April 27 and May 4 combined data from Barron's for 34 dividend-paying stocks as supplemented by analysis powered by YCharts as of May 5.
Watch this space (as the current uncertainty flourishes) for those brave corporations raising payouts in the face of wavering popularity as measured by stock prices.
Actionable Conclusions (1-10): Analysts Estimated 24.37% To 77.82% Net Gains For 10 Top Dividend-Boosted Stocks Listed As Of 3/30-4/20, 2020
Four of 10 top stocks by yield were among the top 10 gainers for the coming year based on analyst 1-year target prices. (They are tinted gray in the chart below.) Thus, the yield-based forecast for these boosted dividend dogs was deemed by Wall St. Wizards as 40% accurate.


Projections were based on estimated dividends from $1k invested in each of... Read more