The Highest-Quality Dividend Champions By Quality Scores
This article presents the highest-quality Dividend Champions, which are companies listed on U.S. exchanges that have consistently higher annual dividend payouts for at least 25 years. Subsequent articles will present the highest-quality Dividend Contenders (10-24 years) and Challengers (5-9 years).
There are 137 Dividend Champions in Portfolio Insight‘s Dividend Radar spreadsheet, and researching all of them would be a daunting task. Instead, I use a quality scoring system to assess the quality of dividend growth [DG] stocks and focus my research efforts on the highest-quality DG stocks. The system considers six quality indicators, each worth five points, for a maximum score of 30. The highest-quality Dividend Champions score four or five points for each quality indicator.
Only 15 stocks, or about 10.9% of the 137 Dividend Champions, pass my quality screen. I own 7 of these stocks in my DivGro portfolio, so there are 8 other high-quality Dividend Champions I could consider for possible inclusion in my portfolio.
Please read this article at Seeking Alpha to review my highest-quality Dividend Champions.
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