102 Dividend Champions For December 2011

The Dividend Champions spreadsheet and PDF have been updated through 11/30/11 and are available (click the link.) Note that all references to Champions mean companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years. “CCC” refers to the universe of Champions, Contenders and Challengers. Delayed Gratification Last month, I wrote that I planned to add a column that would be called the Confidence Factor, or CF, and that I would do so for the November 30 update. Unfortunately, I was unable to spare the time to accomplish that this month, but hope to add that feature for the year-end update, along with the columns mentioned below. It will be a company-specific “score” that will be based on various fundamentals and dividend data, with which I hope to express the level of confidence that we might have... Read more