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Emerson Electric (EMR): A Quality Dividend King Benefiting From Industrial Automation
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 markets. Whether it’s monitoring food temperatures throughout the supply chain or replacing a deteriorating valve that could cause costly downtime, the company helps customers optimize their operations and increase reliability, efficiency, and safety. Emerson completed a number of strategic actions in recent years to streamline its portfolio and refocus on its core businesses. The company divested more than $5 billion worth of operations, [...]
What Does Altria’s (MO) Future Hold for Conservative Dividend Investors?
Despite operating in one of the most controversial and heavily regulated industries in America, tobacco stocks have historically been excellent long-term, high-yield dividend growth investments. In fact, Altria (MO) has been the best performing stock of the last 50 years, generating 20.6% annual returns and increasing shareholder wealth a remarkable 6,638 fold. Along the way, Altria has raised its dividend for 48 consecutive years, making it not only a dividend aristocrat, but poised to become a dividend king in 2019. Let's take a look at how Altria has managed to generate such remarkably consistent dividend growth and market crushing total returns in a declining industry. More importantly, find out if Altria is likely to continue generating healthy [...]
Texas Roadhouse (TXRH): An Impressive Dividend Grower in a Tough Industry
Restaurants can be a potentially great but also very challenging industry for dividend growth investors to do well in. After all, a steady expansion of store counts can lead to highly predictable growth. But on the other hand, a ruthlessly competitive environment, shifting consumer tastes, and numerous cost uncertainties can make it challenging for restaurants to generate the kind of strong margins, earnings, and cash flow that typically back safe and steadily-rising dividends. Texas Roadhouse (TXRH) is one of the few national chains that is flourishing in a highly challenging industry environment, which has allowed the fast-growing company to generate impressive six-year dividend growth of 17.5% per year. Let's take a look at the secret sauce [...]
TJX Companies (TJX): 21 Straight Years of Fast Dividend Growth and Plans for Expansion
Brick-and-mortar retail has been struggling in recent years as consumers increasingly turn to online shopping. In fact, e-commerce sales have grown seven times faster than brick and mortar retail since 2005 (14% annually vs 2%). That being said, brick-and-mortar shopping is far from dead, with most physical stores still seeing slow but steady growth in recent years. Among traditional retailers, TJX Companies (TJX) in particular has proven itself to be arguably the best in the industry thanks to: An impressive 28-year dividend growth rate of 14.7% annually 21 consecutive years of dividend increases (TJX will become a dividend aristocrat in 2021) Market-beating returns over the last two decades (23.1% total returns vs 9.1% for S&P 500) Let's take a look [...]