I love to kick off the new trading week by taking a quick peek at companies that have just raised their dividends, because any company that's easing up on its pocketbook probably has improving fundamentals to back up that generosity.
Readers of our Income Investor newsletter service can certainly appreciate that kind of thinking. Let's take a closer look at four of the companies that inched their payouts higher over the past week.
Let's start with Wrigley
Then we have Hasbro
Archer Daniels Midland
ADM has a knack for declaring beefy distribution increases with every passing year. Its actual dividend has more than doubled over the past five years, in fact. And it's not just ADM being generous in its sector. Other key players, including Bunge
Finally, we have Otter Tail
Subscribers to the Income Investor newsletter service can appreciate the companies sending more and more money to their investors. The service singles out companies that are committed to growing their distributions with market-thumping results.
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