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2012 Dividend Achievers
Posted By Jim On 04/18/2012 @ 7:07 am In Investing | 5 Comments
The Dividend Achievers [3] list is produced by Mergent [4], a finance services data company, and is similar to the Dividend Aristocrats, produced by S&P, in that the list seeks to highlight companies with a consistent history of dividends. To make it on the Dividend Achievers list you need to be traded on the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq, or American Exchange, be a US company with at least ten years consecutive years of increasing regular dividends, and have a minimum average daily volume of $500,000 per day. The list is effective as of the close of the last trading day in January.
The major difference between the Achievers and Aristocrats is the length of dividend increases. Achievers need only ten, Aristocrats need at least twenty five. So the Achievers list is a subset of the Aristocrats list.
There were twenty two additions and ten deletions from the list. The new faces are Southern Company, Monstanto, NIKE, Norfolk Southern, Magellan Midstream Partners, WR Berkley, Harris Corp, NuStar Energy, Royal Gold, Senior Housing Properties Trust, Nu Skin Enterprises, Inergy, Delphi Financial Group, Valmont Industries, Watsco Inc., Sanderson Farms, 1st Source Corp., Tompkins Financial Corp, Republic Bancorp, Cass Information Systems, Arrow Financial Corp and Connecticut Water Service.
The ten companies dropped were CenturyLink (also dropped from Dividend Aristocrats list this year), Getty Realty Corp, Hudson City Bancorp, Harleysville Group, Harsco Corp, Investors Real Estate Trust, NStar, Shenandoah Telecommunications, Universal Forest Products, and Meridian Bioscience Inc.
This year’s list [5] tops out at 211 companies, of which 53 are Aristocrats [6] (indicated by an asterisk below).
As always, these types of lists are a good start to your research but they are certainly not the end… as they always say, past performance is not an indication of future performance.
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[6] Aristocrats: http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/2012-sp-dividend-aristocrats.html
[7] ABM: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ABM
[8] ABT: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ABT
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[18] ATR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ATR
[19] AVP: http://www.google.com/finance?q=AVP
[20] AWR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=AWR
[21] BANF: http://www.google.com/finance?q=BANF
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[28] BMS: http://www.google.com/finance?q=BMS
[29] BPL: http://www.google.com/finance?q=BPL
[30] BRC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=BRC
[31] BRO: http://www.google.com/finance?q=BRO
[32] CAH: http://www.google.com/finance?q=CAH
[33] CASS: http://www.google.com/finance?q=CASS
[34] CASY: http://www.google.com/finance?q=CASY
[35] CAT: http://www.google.com/finance?q=CAT
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[103] MCD: http://www.google.com/finance?q=MCD
[104] MCY: http://www.google.com/finance?q=MCY
[105] MDP: http://www.google.com/finance?q=MDP
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[113] MMP: http://www.google.com/finance?q=MMP
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[116] MSA: http://www.google.com/finance?q=MSA
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[118] MUR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=MUR
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[120] NDSN: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NDSN
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[124] NKE: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NKE
[125] NNN: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NNN
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[129] NST: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NST
[130] NU: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NU
[131] NUE: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NUE
[132] NUS: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NUS
[133] NWN: http://www.google.com/finance?q=NWN
[134] O: http://www.google.com/finance?q=O
[135] OFC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=OFC
[136] OMI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=OMI
[137] ORI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ORI
[138] OZRK: http://www.google.com/finance?q=OZRK
[139] PAA: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PAA
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[141] PBCT: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PBCT
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[146] PII: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PII
[147] PNR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PNR
[148] PNY: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PNY
[149] PPG: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PPG
[150] PPL: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PPL
[151] PX: http://www.google.com/finance?q=PX
[152] RAVN: http://www.google.com/finance?q=RAVN
[153] RBCAA: http://www.google.com/finance?q=RBCAA
[154] RGLD: http://www.google.com/finance?q=RGLD
[155] RLI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=RLI
[156] ROP: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ROP
[157] ROST: http://www.google.com/finance?q=ROST
[158] RPM: http://www.google.com/finance?q=RPM
[159] SAFM: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SAFM
[160] SBSI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SBSI
[161] SCG: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SCG
[162] SCL: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SCL
[163] SEIC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SEIC
[164] SFG: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SFG
[165] SHEN: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SHEN
[166] SHW: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SHW
[167] SIAL: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SIAL
[168] SJI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SJI
[169] SJM: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SJM
[170] SJW: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SJW
[171] SKT: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SKT
[172] SNH: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SNH
[173] SO: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SO
[174] SON: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SON
[175] SPH: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SPH
[176] SRCE: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SRCE
[177] STR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=STR
[178] SWK: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SWK
[179] SYK: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SYK
[180] SYY: http://www.google.com/finance?q=SYY
[181] T: http://www.google.com/finance?q=T
[182] TCP: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TCP
[183] TDS: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TDS
[184] TGT: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TGT
[185] THFF: http://www.google.com/finance?q=THFF
[186] TJX: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TJX
[187] TMP: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TMP
[188] TNC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TNC
[189] TR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TR
[190] TRH: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TRH
[191] TROW: http://www.google.com/finance?q=TROW
[192] UBA: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UBA
[193] UBSI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UBSI
[194] UFPI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UFPI
[195] UGI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UGI
[196] UHT: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UHT
[197] UMBF: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UMBF
[198] UNS: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UNS
[199] UTX: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UTX
[200] UVV: http://www.google.com/finance?q=UVV
[201] VAL: http://www.google.com/finance?q=VAL
[202] VFC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=VFC
[203] VGR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=VGR
[204] VIVO: http://www.google.com/finance?q=VIVO
[205] VMI: http://www.google.com/finance?q=VMI
[206] VVC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=VVC
[207] WABC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WABC
[208] WAG: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WAG
[209] WGL: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WGL
[210] WMT: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WMT
[211] WPC: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WPC
[212] WRB: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WRB
[213] WRE: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WRE
[214] WSO: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WSO
[215] WST: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WST
[216] WTR: http://www.google.com/finance?q=WTR
[217] XOM: http://www.google.com/finance?q=XOM
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