Author Archives: Jason

Dividend Aristocrats Week in Review for October 11, 2014: Two Future Aristocrats Announce Dividends

This week’s activity in dividend growth stocks saw six companies – 2 Dividend Aristocrats and 4 High Yield Dividend Aristocrats – make dividend announcements. A company that produces specialty coatings and sealants and a heavy machinery company that began paying dividends in 1933 are among this week’s dividend growth stocks that announced dividend events this week. Caterpillar Inc. (CAT), which produces heavy machinery for the construction and energy industries, will pay a quarterly Read more [...]

Dividend Aristocrat Performance in the 3rd Quarter of 2014

Now that we’re a few days into October, I thought I’d take a look at how well the Dividend Aristocrats did in the 3rd quarter of 2014. I’ll use the S&P 500 ETF ‘SPY’ as a proxy for comparison. From June 1st to September 30th SPY was flat, being up just 0.46% during those 3 months. The 54 Dividend Aristocrats were split evenly in comparison, with 27 of the Aristocrats beating the S&P 500 index and 27 of them trailing the performance of the S&P 500. Not surprisingly, the two Read more [...]

Welcome to HarvestingDividends.com!

Welcome to my new website, HarvestingDividends.com!  If you were redirected from DividendAristocratStocks.com, rest assured that the information that you were looking for is here.  As I've been doing my research into the best dividend growth stocks, I decided to expand beyond just the S&P Dividend Aristocrats.  Bookmark the site to keep up to date on all the information on stocks that increase their dividends every year! Thanks for visiting.  If you have any questions, please leave a comment! Jason   Read more [...]