Sometimes,
predatory investors and some activists try to steal some of the company’s assets
and force a dividend payment which is much higher than the current earnings. Those
activities are bad for the stock price.
Good
dividend hikes are such ones that are in-line with a healthy growing
operational business. They reflect a solid growing business with a trustful management
who wants to share the company’s success with the ownership.
It’s
easy to discover good and bad dividend growth. All you need is to look at the earnings
developments and debt changes.
Today
I run my screen of the 50 fastest dividend growers from the recent month. Below
the results are again some pretty good stocks with very good growth rates. All stocks
have a double-digit growth rate. The average dividend growth of the 50 best
stocks amounts to 73.26 percent. The average yield is still at 3.77 percent.