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United Technologies (UTX): 10%+ Annual Total Return Potential…If Management Can Execute
United Technologies (UTX) is a diversified industrial business with a strong presence in the aerospace and building systems markets. While this blue chip dividend stock has numerous well-known brands and entrenched market positions dating back more than 80 years, it seems to have lost its way a bit in recent years. Like many other large cap companies (e.g. GE, Procter & Gamble, IBM), UTX is facing growth challenges as some of its businesses have become very large, perhaps a little less focused, and more difficult to manage. Generating tons of cash flow isn’t the problem – it’s whether or not the company should be viewed as an industrial “chugger” with strong long-term earnings growth potential or a mature [...]
Medtronic (MDT): Double-Digit Dividend Growth for this Dividend Aristocrat
Medtronic (MDT) hiked its dividend by 25% earlier this year and has now increased its dividend for nearly 40 consecutive years. While MDT’s 2.0% dividend yield isn’t enough for investors living off dividends in retirement, the stock’s double-digit annual total return potential is attractive in today’s market environment, and we expect continued double-digit dividend growth in each of the next several years. We like the diversity of MDT’s sales mix, the recession-resistant nature of its medical devices, and the company’s dominant positions in many of its key markets. With that said, we believe dividend growth investors need to have a positive view on MDT’s $50 billion acquisition of Covidien and future regulatory changes impacting the U.S. healthcare landscape before [...]
Dividend Growth: What Should You Expect in 2016?
The tallest tree in the world towers over the Earth at nearly 370 feet in height. The tree is part of Redwood National Park in California and is estimated to be 700 to 800 years old. If you are aware of any dividend stocks with an equally impressive growth streak, please let us know 🙂 At it's current pace of growth (about 50 feet every 100 years), the tree would reach the sky in roughly 3.3 million years. Of course, we know that trees can't grow forever - at some point the tree doesn't have enough internal pressure to pull water up from its roots all the way to the top of the tree, limiting growth. All things have natural boundaries, and [...]
Illinois Tool Works (ITW): A Dividend Aristocrat With Double-Digit Dividend Growth
Illinois Tool Works (ITW) is one of the strongest, most diversified industrial conglomerates a dividend growth investor can find. While the stock only yields 2.4% today, the company raised its dividend by 13% last quarter and continued double-digit dividend growth isn’t out of the question. ITW possesses many of the characteristics we look for when accumulating stocks in our Top 20 Dividend Stocks portfolio. Let’s take a closer look at the business. Business Overview ITW was founded over 100 years ago and has grown into an extremely diversified manufacturer of specialized industrial and consumer equipment and consumables with a presence in many different end markets – automotive, construction, manufacturing, food & beverage, and more. The company estimates that [...]