01-02-2022, 09:41 AM
(01-02-2022, 09:02 AM)ken-do-nim Wrote: I simply want a list of stocks that have raised the dividend enough to keep up with inflation for the last 25 years. IBM going $1.62 -> $1.63 -> $1.64 in the last 3 years is the antithesis of that.
And they are deemed a new Aristocrat where they will remain for years. There are many utilities that have never missed a div for 50 years, but froze it for years at a time. The list is losing some meaning.
I too want dividends that grow faster than inflation, but over a longer period. A solid company that boosted it 3% this year coming out of a pandemic when inflation turned out to be 6% isn't a bust, provided inflation returns closer to normal as we expect it to.
The better list is stocks with a 10 year div growth rate at 15%, that have survived a rough economic patch, and trying to make the aristocrat list. Nothing really magical about 25 years. Managing your balance sheet through two recessions means more to me.