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Abbott Laboratories (ABT): A High Quality Dividend Aristocrat With Strong Dividend Growth Potential
Abbott (ABT) is a dividend aristocrat with excellent long-term growth potential. The company maintains a diversified mix of healthcare products that are sold around the world. Many of these products are recession-resistant and will enjoy more demand as consumer wealth increases in emerging markets, where ABT generates about half of its total sales. The company’s dividend is extremely safe and appears to offer upper single-digit growth potential going forward. These are the types of companies we love to own in our Top 20 Dividend Stocks portfolio when they trade at a fair price. Let’s take a closer look at the business. Business Overview ABT has been in business for more than 125 years. The company spun off its [...]
Target (TGT): A Dividend Aristocrat Yielding 3% With 20% Dividend Growth
It’s not too often that you find a dividend aristocrat with a 3% dividend yield and 20% annual dividend growth over the past decade. Target (TGT) just so happens to be one of these stocks. The company has been in business for more than 100 years and will likely be around for the next 100 as well. Despite the company’s durability, it has faced a number of challenges in recent years – the 2013 data breach, an unsuccessful expansion into Canada, and rising pressure from e-commerce competitors. Let’s take a closer look at the business and see if these challenges make TGT a worthwhile investment for our Top 20 Dividend Stocks portfolio today. Business Overview TGT [...]
Colgate (CL): 120 Years of Uninterrupted Dividends
Colgate (CL) has been one of the most successful dividend growth stocks over the last few decades and is one we are watching closely for our Top 20 Dividend Stocks portfolio. Like many other consumer staples businesses, CL benefits from strong brands, dominant market share positions, and financial strength to invest heavily in new product innovation and marketing. The company appears to be very well positioned for long-term earnings growth, and its dividend is one of the best that income investors can find – very few companies can claim uninterrupted dividends since the late 1890s! With that said, the company is facing some macro headwinds today, and the stock’s multiple is relatively high. Let’s take a closer look. [...]
10 Dividend Aristocrats With Dividend Yields Greater Than 3%
Dividend aristocrats are companies in the S&P 500 Index that have managed to raise their dividend payments for at least the last 25 consecutive years. We identified 10 of these high quality companies that offer investors a starting dividend yield of 3%. Some have paid dividends for more than 100 years! Not surprisingly, dividend aristocrats are mostly large cap, blue chip stocks that have proven to be some of the most durable businesses that money can buy. That's one reason why we own some of them in our Top 20 Dividend Stocks portfolio. Consistent dividend increases are often signs of a strong business that is enjoying steady earnings growth. Paying out dividends to shareholders also signals management's confidence in [...]