I love to kick off the new trading week by taking a quick peek at companies that have just hiked their dividends. It's not just about the money. A company easing up on its purse strings probably has improving fundamentals to back up that generosity.
Readers of the Income Investor newsletter can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let's take a closer look at four of the companies that inched their payouts higher this past week.
We'll start with baked-goods specialist Flowers Foods
Anticipation is more than just the old Carly Simon tune that once helped promote H.J. Heinz
Rogers
Communications
Knight Transportation
Subscribers to Income Investor can appreciate companies that send 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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Longtime Fool contributor Rick Munarriz pays attention to yield signs. He does not own shares in any of the companies in this story. He is also part of the Rule Breakers newsletter research team, seeking out tomorrow's ultimate growth stocks a day early. The Fool has a disclosure policy.