Dividend checks continue to get fatter in corporate America, as more companies jack up their distribution rates.
Readers of the Income Investor newsletter can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let's take a closer look at some of the companies that inched their payouts higher this past week.
Let's start with McCormick
The spice rack staple is sprinkling some more flavor into its dividend, boosting its quarterly distributions by 11% to $0.31 a share. Shareholders should be used to this by now. McCormick has now bumped up its yield for 26 consecutive years.
If you think that's impressive, Becton, Dickinson
South Jersey Industries
Finally we have United Bankshares
These companies join Spam cannery Hormel Foods
Subscribers to the Income Investor newsletter can appreciate the companies sending more and more money to their investors. The newsletter singles out companies that are committed to growing their distributions with market-thumping results.
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