I'm a dividend growth investor and
watch daily what companies have raised their dividends. During the past week,
seven stocks with a market capitalization of more than 1 billion increased
dividends. Five of them have a current yield of more than 4 percent.
Many banks and
REITs are on the list. It should be a sign that those stocks benefit from low
interest rates and quantitative easing.
Banks benefit not as much as REITs
due to the low interest rates, but banks start to hike because their regulation
allows it after the shocking financial crises in 2008.
Remember that
those two industries are not in my dividend growth focus because they are
cyclic and offer a kind of black-box for investors which I don't like. I like
to see what I get.
Here are the
dividend growers of the week: