Many investors target dividend stocks purely because they want a fixed-income portfolio, but some go even further and look for companies that are growing their dividends steadily. Not all companies pay dividends, but those that do are using dividends to return some of their profits to shareholders. The stocks of companies that grow their dividends regularly act as an inflation hedge because as prices rise, their earnings and profits should increase as they raise prices, passing their rising costs onto consumers. Q1 2022 hedge fund letters, conferences and more At the 2022 Virtual Value Investing Conference held by Ivey Business…
How To Identify Dividend Growers And Win Big With Them
Michelle deBoer-Jones
Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.