These 7 Stocks Paid Dividends Over 100 Years

Today, we’re focusing on precisely seven of those companies — a group of high-quality dividend stocks that have reliably paid investors since the 19th century.

Paying dividends for such a long period of time is a clear signal of financial strength and indicates that a company has numerous competitive advantages that have withstood the test of time. 

 All of these businesses have created massive value for shareholders.

In fact, over the last 20 years, each of these blue-chip dividend stocks has delivered a total return greater than 550% — easily outpacing the S&P 500 index’s total return of about 360%.

Here are the results...

9 Best Dividend Champions To Buy Now - Cheaply Priced Growth Stocks

Over the weekend, I screened several Dividend Champions by a great number of criteria. I wanted a fresh overview of the most attractive stocks on the market.

I do a lot of research and I'm glad to say that I always find good looking stocks. The massive quantitative easing programs led stock prices rise and valuations explode, especially within the safe haven large cap space.

I haven’t bought any of them since 2014. For sure, during the small sell-off till February 2016, a few big names came on my watch list but before I could load my weapon, the markets recovered. 

Before you might ask me about which stocks I'm talking, I will tell it: Disney and Abbott Laboratories. Honeywell was also in my mind. Dandelion.

However, back to the results from my screen over the weekend, here are the 9 top Dividend Champions picks that offer a solid value for reasonable price in terms of modest growth.

Here are the 9 picks…

12 Most Profitable Long-Term Dividend Growth Stocks By Net Profit Margin

Net profit margin is a measure of how profitable a company is. It analyzes how much net profit a company generates after accounting for all the costs of running the business, then divides that figure by total revenue.

The other role net profit margin plays is to give us some insight into the nature of the competition a company faces.

High net profit margins often signify a company that has a dominant market share, a dominant product, or operates in an arena where few competitors exist, meaning it has little in the way of pricing power concerns. 

In other words, net profit margin can potentially be a useful tool in spotting top-performing companies. 

Recently, I wrote about dividend growth stocks with the highest operating margin. Today I like to show you those with the highest net margin.

Here are the results...

6 Top Dividend Growth Stocks With Yields Over 4%

Interest rates are at the lowest level for nearly a decade. 

As safe haven investor, you will not receive much more than 2% for taking risk into your portfolio.

The good news is that there are plenty of stocks yielding double that annual rate, and even if a market-thumping yield often involves some trade-offs, income investors don't have to give up profit or sales growth potential to achieve a 4% dividend yield.

With that in mind, here are three growing businesses with hefty dividend payouts that you might consider adding to your watchlist.

Here are the stocks with 4% dividend yield which look like bargains...

15 Long-Term Dividend Grower With The Highest Operating Margin

Many investors never really look at company financials. By neglecting that aspect of their financial education, they miss out on some of the most useful information that financial data can provide. 

 In particular, measures like margins can tell you how efficient a company is in converting the sales it generates into profits for shareholders. 

 One type of margin known as operating margin focuses on an intermediate step in the financial statement, and it's something that you can use to focus on the core elements of a business to see how profitable it is. 

The operating margin show us how many of a dollar revenue is profit for paying interest and taxes. The higher the value, the better it is for investors. It tells us also a lot about the market strength of a corporate and their pricing power. 

If margins are low, you may own only a small piece of the supply chain and the cake. Remember retailer. They have a damn low margin, which is in general not bad but they offer only a small part of the whole product development and marketing cycle. 

They just sell the product. Attached you will find a couple of dividend paying long-term raiser stocks with the highest margin on the market. I observed only the group of Dividend Champions. 

 Over the next days I will also show you those stocks with the highest net income profit margin. The difference between them and today's results is that they could have less debt. That's one reason why they have higher margins in the end.

Here are the most profitable dividend grower from the Dividend Champions League…