I love to kick off the new trading week by looking at companies that have just raised their dividends. A company that's easing up on its pocketbook probably has improving fundamentals to back up that generosity.
Readers of the Income Investor newsletter service can 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.
We'll start by shopping around with TJX
Retailers may be in for a challenging road, but that hasn't stopped chains such as Gap
H.B. Fuller
CastlePoint Holdings
Finally, we have A. Schulman
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