Category Archives: Aristocrats

Dividend Aristocrats for Week Ending January 31, 2014: 5 Payouts Plus 3 Dividend Increases

This week 8 Dividend Aristocrats announced their quarterly payouts, with 3 of them announcing dividend increases.  The three that announced dividend increases were: Insurer Cincinnati Financial (CINF) increased their quarterly dividend by 4.8% from 42 to 44 cents per share.  The increased dividend is payable on April 15th to shareholders of record on March 19th.  In the past, CINF has increased their regular dividend in the October payout, so this represents an acceleration of the usual dividend Read more [...]

Dividend Aristocrats for Week Ending January 24, 2014: ADP, Brown Forman Declare Regular Dividends

This week saw two Dividend Aristocrats declare regular quarterly dividends: Automatic Data Processing (ADP) declared a quarterly dividend of 48 cents payable April 1st to shareholders of record on  March 14th.  This is the 2nd quarter with the dividend at this rate after ADP increased their dividend by 10% beginning in early January 2014.  ADP has increased dividends for 39 consecutive years and currently yields 2.49%. Brown-Forman Company (BF-B) declared a quarterly dividend of 29 cents Read more [...]

What is a Dividend Aristocrat Stock?

Investing in stocks for current income can be an excellent strategy.  Investors looking for income will often look for companies with high dividend yields, where the dividends are a large percentage of the share price.  However, this can be risky.  A high yield may indicate a company that has a problem; as the stock price has gone down due to selling, the dividend yield has gone up.  Companies with artificially high yields may not keep paying out dividends at the same level.  Depending on an Read more [...]