12 Confident, Secure Companies Boosting Dividends

Dividends4Life submits: If income investing were as simple as picking the stock with the highest yield, everyone would be an expert. Most assume (rightfully so) that yield is heavily influenced by risk, but much more goes into determining yield. Below are several important factors that influence a stock’s yield, along with some illustrative examples:

Dividend Growth Investor submits: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. (APD) provides atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment, and services worldwide. The company operates through five segments: Merchant Gases, Tonnage Gases, Electronics and Performance Materials and Equipment and Energy,.

By Dividend Growth Investor:As a dividend growth investor, I uncover attractively valued companies by running my monthly screen against the dividend champions and dividend achievers' indexes.

Dividends4Life submits: Yield does not come without a price, usually in the form of added risk and/or complexity. Ultimately, dividend growth investors realize that long-term and sustainable high-yield investments are grown over time.

By Dividends4Life: The Boston Consulting Group doesn’t discount the role that stock buybacks can play in boosting near-term returns for some companies. But the firm’s research indicates that stock buybacks do not change investors’ estimates for long-term earnings-per-share growth, or induce them to accord a company a higher valuation multiple.

By F.A.S.T. Graphs:From antifreeze to ziti, you pick a letter of the alphabet and Air Products And Chemicals Inc. (APD) supplies it ... from atmospheric gases, process and specialty gases, performance materials, equipment and services that are used to preserve, manufacture or distribute products.

By Dividends4Life: Most good things are worth waiting for. If you are to establish a long-term relationship with a stock, it better be a quality stock. Time is a powerful force, with it we can overcome poor choices, poor timing and bad decisions. Without it, we immediately are forced to pay for our indiscretions.

Dividends4Life submits: When you purchase individual stocks, risk is inherit. Sometimes bad things happen to good stocks. Eventually, every investor will hold a stock that falls out of favor and endures a double-digit decline. Understanding this from the onset makes it easier to deal with. To minimize the risk of significant declines, your core portfolio should focus on blue-chip dividend growth stocks.