16 Canadian Dividend Aristocrats For Global Diversification

Dividend aristocrats, as defined by Standard and Poor’s, are stocks that meet certain size and liquidity standards that “have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least five years.”

That's a much easier rule to fulfill compared the US Dividend Aristocrats Index for which you need a 25 year consecutive dividend hike.

Today I like to share a sample of 16 S&P/TSX Canadian Dividend Aristocrats with you, a premier group of Canadian stocks that have increased their cash dividends for at least five consecutive years.

Below is the list for 2016 sorted by dividend yield. If you like to receive more dividend yield tables of the best long-term dividend raiser, you should subscribe to my blog news by following the link, it's completely free and independent. Thank you for reading.

These are the results...

11 Canadian Dividend Stocks You Should Consider For Your Dividend Growth Portfolio

I'm a big fan of dividend growth stocks because they delivered me solid returns and a growing passive income over the recent years.

My main focus was on U.S. stocks, which is generally good because the American capitalism works fine but outside the US are also good stocks with a predictable business and stable growing dividends.

This week, I look at companies in Canada that have had a history of growing dividends, but more important have the capacity to continue to grow these dividends in the future.

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A key measure of this sustainability can be observed through the payout ratio, which is the ratio of dividends paid to either cash flows or earnings.

A company paying out too high of a percentage in dividends is likely unable to continue to do so in the future. Attached are 11 of my top picks from the results.

I hope you can find there some new ideas. Please share your thoughts about the results. Thank you.

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20 Dividend Challengers With Fastest Growing Dividends

Dividend Challengers with fastest growing dividend payments originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Recently I screened Dividend Champs with the fastest rate of dividend growth. Mc Donald’s was my best yielding pick. I noticed that the top 20 stocks had a 10 year dividend growth performance of remarkable 10 to 30 percent yearly but for most of them, the performance slowed within the recent years.

It’s not possible of any company to raise dividends at a very high rate over a longer period. It’s also not possible to raise dividend payments with a gaining momentum. Every company that does this must reduce its growth speed over the time.

Today, I like to introduce some of the fastest growing dividend payers that have raised their distributions at least for five consecutive years but less than ten years. Here, the best results have grown their dividend payments over the recent five years with a rate of 90 to 30 percent. That’s definitely a higher growth figure but as I told, very growth rate will come down.

Below the top results of my screen are eleven stocks with a buy or better rating. Three of them are High-Yields.

20 Most Recommended Industrial Dividend Stocks | Top Stock Buy List

Industrial goods stocks with highest buy rating originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to finalize my January posts of the highest recommended stocks from the eight most important sectors of the economy. Industrial goods are the latest sector to discover.

The industrial sector is a small one with 359 related companies and only 172 of them are dividend stocks. The average dividend yield amounts to 2.01 and the P/E ratio has a value of 24.59 in average.

I personally have only a small share of industrial stocks in my private portfolios. The main reason is that the sector has many cyclic companies and stocks from the sector are often very capital intensive. They need huge amounts of money to keep the business running and growing. As a result, dividend payments are low.

But there are also some great growth stories. I own shares of United Technologies, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. My biggest position is General Electric on which I have 104% unrealized gains. Not enough, I have around 10 -20 additional stocks on my watch list.

Below is a small compilation of the 20 highest recommended dividend stocks with a market capitalization over USD 2 billion. What do you think about the list of the most recommended industrial goods dividend stocks? Do you own some of them? Please let me know and leave a comment in the box below.

20 Highly Recommended Dividend Challengers

Dividend Challengers are stocks with a history of consecutive rising dividends of more than 5 years but less than 10 years. If you believe this is a criterion only fulfilled by a few companies, you are right. There are only 113 stocks with such a dividend growth history.

Dividend growth is very important for your retirement funds. If you buy several of the best dividend growth shares, you could double your passive income from dividend in ten years easily. Over twenty years, your dividends should quadruple.

Smart investors like you are always looking for simple stock trade ideas of highly recommended stocks. I like to combine both criteria. I screened all Dividend Challengers by the best rating notes from brokerage firms. In order to eliminate the risks of lower capitalized stocks, the market capitalization should be over $2 billion.

17 Of The Best Aerospace/Defense Products And Services Dividend Stocks

The Best Yielding Aerospace/Defense Products And Services Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The aerospace industry is growing in the long-run. The industry has 41 companies listed with a total market capitalization of USD 215 billion. The average P/E ratio amounts to 14.50 and the dividend yield has a value of 2.4 percent.

I screened the whole industry by the best yielding stocks. Seventeen companiespay dividends of which three yield over three percent. Twelve have a buy or better recommendation.