Founded in 1896, Tootsie Roll (TR) is the maker of famous candy brands such as: Tootsie Roll, Tootsie Pops, Child’s Play, Caramel Apple Pops, Charms, Blow-Pop, Junior Mints, Charleston Chew, Sugar Daddy, Sugar Babies, Andes, Razzles, and Dubble Bubble. The company sells its products primarily through 30 candy and grocery brokers to over 4,000 supermarkets, [...]
Founded in 1885, Johnson & Johnson is the world’s largest medical conglomerate. With more than 250 subsidiaries operating in over 60 countries, Johnson & Johnson’s three major business units provide it with a very diversified mix of revenue, earnings, and cash flow. Here are the company’s operating segments: Pharmaceuticals (47% of 2016 sales; [...]
Target was founded in 1902 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but the first discount Target store didn't open until 1962. Today, Target is one of America's largest retailers with annual sales of approximately $70 billion and more than 1,800 stores across the country. Target’s stores focus on convenient one-stop shopping and competitive discount prices, offering a [...]
Founded in 1890, Emerson Electric is a global industrial conglomerate that serves the oil and gas, refining, chemicals, power generation, pharma, food and beverages, pulp and paper, metal and mining, and municipal water supply sectors. Emerson Electric brings together technology and engineering to provide solutions for customers in the process, industrial, commercial, and residential [...]
When it comes to high-quality dividend growth stocks, investors naturally gravitate to blue chips like dividend aristocrats and dividend kings. After all, no company can increase its dividend for at least 25 or 50 years in a row without a certain combination of highly admirable characteristics. These traits tend to include stable and predictable [...]
While fast-growing momentum stocks might get the headlines, some of the best long-term investments are often far less exciting dividend growth stalwarts such as 3M (MMM). This industrial powerhouse has made countless investors amazingly wealthy over the years (12.9% total returns vs 9.1% for the S&P 500 over the last 22 years) thanks to its disciplined [...]
Dividend kings, those rarest of companies with 50+ years of consecutive dividend growth, can be a great place to start looking for relatively safe income investments. That's because most companies that not only survive for 50 years but thrive enough to reward investors with rising dividends often have solid fundamental characteristics, including an advantaged [...]
Dividend Kings, companies with 50+ straight years of dividend growth, are the epitome of dependable long-term income growth investments. Dover (DOV), an industrial blue chip, is even more impressive having grown its payout 9% annually over the past 30 years, and the company is about to announce its 62nd consecutive annual dividend increase. [...]
Companies that have consistently increased their dividends over the course of several decades are often some of the most resilient businesses in the market. Dividend kings are especially popular with income investors because they have boosted their payouts for at least 50 consecutive years. American States Water (AWR) is a small cap and [...]
Dividend kings, companies with 50+ consecutive years of dividend growth under their belts, tend to be large, stable, and well-known businesses that are often a favorite among income investors. However, occasionally small, lesser-known companies make it into this venerable group. ABM Industries (ABM) is one example and has been a remarkably stable business over [...]
Cincinnati Financial (CINF) has increased its dividend for 56 consecutive years, an impressive streak that only seven other U.S. public companies can match. Perhaps more impressively, a shareholder who purchased one share of this well-run insurer before 1957 would own more than 2,146 shares today, assuming all shares from stock dividends and splits were held. [...]
When it comes to steady dividend growth, dividend kings, 22 companies that have raised payouts for 50+ consecutive years, are standouts that generally mark a great place to start shopping for long-term income investments. However, a problem that many dividend growth investors have is that most dividend kings are very slow growing companies with [...]
Many income investors, especially those focused on the best high dividend stocks, often rely on slow but steadily growing companies to make up the core of their diversified dividend portfolios. And among such companies, certain dividend kings, stocks with 50+ consecutive years of payout growth, represent some of the best time-tested, low risk names you can [...]
Nordson (NDSN) has the 14th longest dividend growth streak among U.S. public companies with 53 consecutive years of increases, but many investors have never heard of this member of the dividend kings list here. However, Nordson is certainly a business that's worth getting to know. The company has sticky customer relationships, a large base of [...]
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) is one of the strongest, most diversified companies that a dividend growth investor can find in the industrial sector. While the stock only yields close to 2% today, the company has consistently raised its dividend at a double-digit pace for many years. In fact, Illinois Tool Works has been growing [...]