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12 Best Dividend Champions Each Value Investor Should Be Interested In

Even after a 15% pullback, the S&P 500 yields just 2.3% today. Which means if you buy an index fund today, and you never saw a dividend increase, it’d take you more than 40 years to get your initial investment back in cash.

Fortunately companies with growing earnings often do pass their higher profits along to shareholders. And you can really accelerate your returns by buying only those that increase their payouts annually.

There are a lot of companies with steady dividend growth. The longest dividend history has Dividend Champions. Those stocks managed their distribution growth over 25 consecutive years.

Today I like to highlight a few from them with attractive fundamentals. I can run screens each week and there are new ideas on my list. That's great. All I need to do is to wait for a good bargain which I can hunt for a while.

These are the current value dividend growth stocks that caught my attention recently...

12 Best Dividend Champions
Each Value Investor Should Be Interested In
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