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Becton Dickinson (BDX): A Quality Dividend Aristocrat With Double-Digit Payout Growth
Warren Buffett once said, "Only buy something that you’d be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.” In other words, a company with a highly predictable business model, durable competitive advantages, a shareholder-friendly corporate culture, and numerous opportunities for long-term growth. Of course finding such companies isn't always that easy, but you can take a look at all of Warren Buffett's dividend stocks here for a few examples. There is also another group of dividend growth stocks known as dividend aristocrats, which pretty much define the kind of "buy and hold forever" mentality that Buffett looks for. Let's take a closer look at dividend aristocrat Becton Dickinson (BDX) which, with 45 straight years of [...]
Sysco Corp (SYY): A Future Dividend King Worth Reviewing
Dividend investing has proven to the be an effective way for investors to compound their wealth and income over time. And when it comes to dividend growth stocks, they don't get much more consistent than the dividend aristocrats and dividend kings, groups of companies that have raised their dividends for at least 25 and 50 consecutive years, respectively. Let's take a closer look at Sysco Corporation (SYY), which is a dividend aristocrat and, thanks to 48 consecutive years of dividend growth, is just two years away from becoming a dividend king. More importantly, learn if Sysco seems likely to reward dividend investors with many more years of income growth and if today's valuation appears to be reasonable. Business [...]
Hormel Foods (HRL): A Beaten-Down Dividend King That’s Worth a Closer Look
Hormel Foods (HRL) is one of the truly elite stocks when it comes to consistent dividend growth and shareholder value creation. Thanks to 51 straight years of dividend increases Hormel is now a dividend king, a group of stocks that have historically been some of the most successful at growing investor income and wealth. Best of all, this highly recession resistant, low risk stock, which has grown its payout by 10.8% annually over the last 20 years, has underperformed the market by nearly 20% over the past year. Let's take a closer look to see why Wall Street has become so negative about Hormel and if now could be a reasonable time for long-term investors to give the stock [...]
GE CEO Jeff Immelt Steps Down: What Dividend Investors Need to Know
General Electric (GE) announced its CEO Jeff Immelt is stepping down on August 1 and will retire from his role as chairman of the board at the end of 2017. Immelt had served as GE's CEO for 16 years and wasn't exactly the most popular executive with investors, to put it nicely. Questionable capital allocation decisions, the dividend cut during the financial crisis, the lack of capital returned to shareholders, bureaucracy, and non-GAAP accounting complexities are all reasons why GE has been one of the most unloved stocks in America. In fact, shares of GE have seen their price decline by more than 30% since Immelt succeeded Jack Welch at the end of 2001. Immelt will be replaced by John [...]