Dividend Growth Forum

CVS hiking its dividend 27%

http://247wallst.com/retail/2014/12/16/c...-buybacks/

You guys are keeping me busy!

Think I have everything up to date.

Realty Income (O) raises dividend by 0.17%

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/78th-commo...00847.html

I own O and would like to have more shares. Just can't make myself pull the trigger with such stretched valuations. Will patiently wait until the pundits decide that this is a stock to avoid. Of one thing I am confident, the price will come to me, probably will come with the first signs of Fed rate increases. Somewhere over 5% yield, hopefully closer to 6%, the shares will once again move to my buy list.

Waddell & Reed Financial (NYSE:WDR) declares $0.43/share quarterly dividend, 26.5% increase from prior dividend of $0.34.
Forward yield 3.8%
Payable Feb. 2; for shareholders of record Jan. 12; ex-div Jan. 8.

AT&T increases their quarterly dividend by a penny from $0.46 to $0.47.

http://seekingalpha.com/news/2189975-at-...7-dividend

Watsco, Inc. (WSO) (WSO) announced today that its Board of Directors has approved a 17% increase in its annual dividend to $2.80 per share. A regular quarterly dividend of 70 cents per share has been declared for each outstanding share of its Common and Class B common stock payable on January 30, 2015 to shareholders of record at the close of business on January 21, 2015. Watsco has paid quarterly dividends for 40 consecutive years.

Albert H. Nahmad, Watsco's Chairman & Chief Executive Officer stated, “Our philosophy of sharing cash flow through dividends continues. As we have stated many times in the past, our goal over the long-term is to pay increasing dividends while maintaining a conservative balance sheet with capacity to make investments in our business and build our network. We will consider future increases in light of such investment opportunities, cash flow, general economic conditions and our overall financial condition.”

Ford increases dividend by 20 percent, from 12.5 cents per quarter to 15 cents per quarter. Nice!

JMP Group is switching from quarterly to monthly distributions, and in process increasing its distributions 50%!

Gladstone Land Corp (LAND) raising its dividends by 16.7%

http://ir.gladstoneland.com/releasedetai...eID=891160

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Omega Healthcare (OHI) raises dividend by 1.92%

http://www.omegahealthcare.com/file.aspx...D=27042948

Alongside BlackRock's (NYSE:BLK) Q4 results, the company boosts the quarterly dividend by 13% to $2.18 per share (2.5% annualized yield) and approves the repurchase of another 6M shares under the existing buyback program.

Fastenal (FAST) announces a 12% increase in dividends

http://seekingalpha.com/pr/12208856-fast...h-dividend