In a recent article, I ranked the Dividend Aristocrats using a modified version of David Van Knapp's quality scoring system. The system employs five widely used quality indicators from independent sources and assigns 0-5 points to each quality indicator, for a maximum of 25 points.
While there are exceptions, the highest quality Dividend Aristocrats are low-yielding stocks with yields less than 3%. In this article, I'm presenting high-quality dividend growth ((DG)) stocks yielding at least 3%. Note that David Van Knapp's original article presented high-quality DG stocks yielding 4% or more.
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