Comments on Dividend Growth Investor: Where are the original Dividend Aristocrats now?

Each of these stocks is a member of the S&P 50...

2012-01-23T06:49:11.072-08:00

Each of these stocks is a member of the S&P 500 and also a Dividend Aristocrat, meaning the company has increased its dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years.

CSR: The Old Central & Southwest (Electric Uti...

2010-01-08T16:08:23.585-08:00

CSR: The Old Central & Southwest (Electric Utility). It was acquired by American Electric Power in 1998.

Dr Stock, I am not a big fan of unsustainably hig...

2009-11-13T11:19:35.621-08:00

Dr Stock,

I am not a big fan of unsustainably high dividend yielders as well. Check my site out and you would see that I enjoy reasonable but sustainbale yielders which grow distributions over time.

Anon,

I agree its tough to forecast future dividend growth.

Ahhh yep you are correct. I had to re-read that a ...

2009-11-12T19:58:27.209-08:00

Ahhh yep you are correct. I had to re-read that a couple times. Sorry about that.

Dividends are great, but not to the demise of the ...

2009-11-12T12:44:24.221-08:00

Dividends are great, but not to the demise of the underlying asset price. Why invest in 17% annual return when the stock loses 20% annually? The key is investing with the market momentum in solid companies whose sales are increasing while costs are kept in check.

Hello! Thank you for very interesting post. As ...

2009-11-11T18:02:46.376-08:00

Hello!

Thank you for very interesting post.

As we can see even some Dividend Aristocrats went to bancrupcy and we know that the same happens with so-called Dividend Champions and Dividend Achievers. In most cases a company cut or eliminate dividends before such event. It is possible (to some extend of cause) to predict dividends cuts and get out such stocks. I do not know how to predict a long rate of dividends growth. I think it would be fare to calculate rate of dividends growth during last N years ( e.g. 24=25-1years for a Dividend Aristocrat) and keep the company on the list until it is above 1 (i.e. flat dividends, no growth). I'd probably sell such company if yield is smaller than money market or good bonds interest rate during these N years. But I do not see why such bad performer during last N years that had good history of dividends growth in the initial M years (M=25 years for a Dividend Aristocrat before it appeared on the list) should be removed from the list if it keeps constant stable dividend.

Car4SS

Rhianni, The labels are not switched. The outperf...

2009-11-11T14:46:42.850-08:00

Rhianni,

The labels are not switched. The outperformers are the 7 surviving companies, and the underperformer is the S7P Dividend aristocrats index ( for the second chart)

Mgk1,

Thanks, I updated the changes.

Jon,

I wrote a post that has some similarity to what you are asking for. Check this out:

http://www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/2009/10/is-now-time-to-sell-your-dividend.html

Something you mentioned in an earlier post about c...

2009-11-11T11:10:01.288-08:00

Something you mentioned in an earlier post about chasing yield on cost caught my attention. I've been acquiring some dividend aristocrat stocks over the last year or so, and was able to snag some of them at a significant discount when the entire market was down. As these prices rise, the current dividend yield appears to fall. Do you ever get to a point when you decide there's more money to be made in selling your position in a stock for the current market price rather than waiting on the dividends? e.g., if there's 10,20,30 quarters worth of dividends in taking a profit by selling now?

couple of ticker errors in DOV and PG. Good artic...

2009-11-11T06:44:27.238-08:00

couple of ticker errors in DOV and PG.

Good article!

I might be misunderstanding the second chart here ...

2009-11-11T05:47:55.863-08:00

I might be misunderstanding the second chart here DGI but are the labels switched as to which line is which?