DGI For The DIY

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I feel there is sometimes an over-emphasis on dividend growth, because as MasterCard and Visa demonstrate, it's far easier to grow a dividend that started very small at double digit rates for a while. Fascinating that on your list only OZK and WSO are even over 3% yield. Now granted if a stock's price keeps increasing at a high rate, the yield will always remain low, but I don't think that's the case for all of these. It will be interesting to see if some of these slow down in the future as their yield reaches into the 2-3% range.

I remember when I compared HD to LOW, I liked HD better and have stuck with that. It currently wins the yield competition 2.95 to 2.19 as well. Do you think LOW is actually the better dividend growth stock?