53 August Dividend Kings: Buy 7, Watch 9 More

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Summary

  • “What is a Dividend King? A stock with 50 or more consecutive years of dividend increases.”—suredividend.com.
  • The 53 Dividend Kings, screened as of August 6, represented 8 of 11 Morningstar Sectors. Broker-targeted top-ten net-gains ranged 9.36%-31.67% topped-by PPG, and Target.
  • By yield, Altria tops-all. Top-ten August dogs: NFG, FRT, KVUE, FTS, UBSI, BKH, NWN, CDUAF, UVV, & MO averaged 4.92% in yield.
  • The Kings showed top-ten broker-estimated target-price upsides from: BDX, PH, NFG, EMR, NUE, PPG, TGT, SCL, GRC, and TNC, averaging 26.65%.
  • $5k invested August 6 in the five top-yield, lowest-priced, Kings showed 1.59% more net-gain than from $5k invested in all top ten. Little (lower-priced) equities led these Dividend Kings by a nose in August.
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As a supplement to this article, please note that The Motley Fool, which sourced this latest list, and SureDividend both update their lists periodically.

While most of this August collection of 53 Kings are too pricey to

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