Yields aren't found just at roadway intersections. In the stock market, they can be a sign of prosperity, provided the company paying them can maintain a healthy balance sheet along the way. It's often interesting to track companies that are growing their dividends, since those payouts just might indicate improving fundamentals.
Let's take a closer look at four companies that inched their payouts higher this past week.
We'll start with Coca-Cola
Breakfast buffs may associate Kellogg
International Speedway
Then we have New York Times
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Longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz pays attention to yield signs. He does not own shares in any of the companies mentioned in this story. The Fool has a disclosure policy. Rick is also part of the Rule Breakers newsletter research team, seeking out tomorrow's ultimate growth stocks a day early.