WRK - The Fastest Growing Dividends Of The Decade
Everybody loves dividend paying companies. Even more so if the dividends grow. Plenty of companies can manage moderate, single-digit percentage increases in their dividends every year. Above average ones can manage double-digit increases. The truly exceptional ones can sustain more than 20% annualized growth over a prolonged period. These are the companies with the fastest growing dividends of the last decade:
Note: For the purposes of this exercise, I excluded companies which cut their dividend during the Great Recession. (Many banks reduced their dividends to 1 cent, resulting in abnormally large increases in subsequent years.)