This article series is designed to keep investors informed of upcoming dividend increases. Any company can increase a dividend, but these companies have a history of annual increases. For dividend growth investors, this can be an opportunity to start or add to positions prior to a new increased payout. This can be especially important for retirees who live on dividend checks.
Please perform due diligence before making any investment decision, especially during COVID-19. If you haven't noticed - dividend increases have dried up this year! It's been several weeks since I had an article because companies have been deferring their increases. I went back to this time last year to review who might be raising and checked their recent dividend announcements and a common theme is keeping them the same. With the ways the rules work for both the U.S. "CCC" list and more formal lists such as the Dividend Aristocrats, companies need to increase them during the year but it doesn't necessarily need to be on a perfect cadence of every four quarters.
The lists I've compiled provide various stats for the stocks that are increasing their dividends next week.
This list is a trimmed-down version only covering dividend increases. A full upcoming dividend calendar is always available here. If you know how this was built and the caveats, feel free to jump down to the lists themselves.
How It's Assembled
The information presented below was created by combining the "U.S. Dividend Champions" spreadsheet hosted here with upcoming dividend information from Nasdaq. This meshes metrics about companies with dividend growth history with upcoming dividend payments (and whether those payments are increasing). These companies all have a minimum five-year dividend growth history.
As a point of clarification, companies are included that may not raise their dividend every calendar year, but the total
