Dividends provide more than just a predictable, low-risk, spendable and repeatable investment return to shareholders. Repeated increases in dividends can also be seen as an indication of a sound, growing company.
Companies that have repeatedly increased dividends, as well as have a record of recent dividend increases can be seen as attractive growth stocks with healthy futures.
Here are three dividend growth stocks that raised dividends last week, and have also raised dividends for the last 10 years –
Danaher Corporation – SYM: DHR
Recent Price: $253.78
10-Year Annualized Dividend Growth: 33.84%
Description: Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures, and markets professional, medical, industrial, and commercial products and services worldwide. The company was formerly known as Diversified Mortgage Investors, Inc. and changed its name to Danaher Corporation in 1984. Danaher Corporation was founded in 1969 and is based in Washington, the District of Columbia.
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AMERISAFE, Inc. – SYM: AMSF
Recent Price: $51.88
10-Year Annualized Dividend Growth: 15.57%
Description: AMERISAFE, Inc., an insurance holding company, underwrites workers’ compensation insurance in the United States. Its workers’ compensation insurance policies provide benefits to injured employees for temporary or permanent disability, death, and medical and hospital expenses. The company sells its products through retail and wholesale brokers and agents to small and mid-sized employers engaged in hazardous industries, including construction, trucking, logging and lumber, agriculture, manufacturing, telecommunications, and maritime. AMERISAFE, Inc. was incorporated in 1985 and is based in DeRidder, Louisiana.
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Cohen & Steers, Inc. – SYM: CNS
Recent Price: $72.51
10-Year Annualized Dividend Growth: 11.04%
Description: Cohen & Steers, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the firm provides its services to institutional investors, including pension funds, endowments, and foundations. It manages separate client-focused equity, fixed income, multi-asset, and commodity portfolios through its subsidiaries. The firm launches and manages equity, fixed income, balanced, and multi-asset mutual funds through its subsidiaries. Through its subsidiaries, it also launches and manages hedge funds. The firm invests in public equity, fixed income, and commodity markets across the globe through its subsidiaries. Through its subsidiaries, it invests in companies operating in the real estate sector, including real estate investment trusts, infrastructure sector, and natural energy resources sector for its equity and fixed income investments. The firm also invests in preferred securities for its fixed income investments through its subsidiaries. The firm is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Cohen & Steers, Inc. was founded in 1986 and is based in New York.
