The Dividend Family Guy

Company Name Symbol Industry No. Years Dividend Yield Sector EPS% Payout +/-% vs. Graham Chowder Rule Principal Financial Group Inc. PFG Financial Services 10 3.27 Financials 26.19 (29.4) 23.0 Prudential Financial Inc. PRU Insurance 10 3.39 Financials 32.00 (41.0) 16.8 Helmerich & Payne Inc. HP Oil&Gas 45 4.34 Energy 33.86 (27.1) 62.8 Altria Group Inc. MO Tobacco 48 4.19 Consumer Staples 49.53 128.1 12.5 Consolidated Edison ED Utility-Electric 44 3.82 Utilities 13.03 (52.3) 6.5 Portland General Electric Co. POR Utility-Electric 12 3.42 Utilities 23.09 (33.8) 7.7 Archer Daniels Midland ADM Agriculture 43 3.23...

The goal of dividend growth investing is to create an income stream from many companies that increase their dividend each year.  To protect the income stream they should also be a diversified set of stocks.  My portfolio has been a bit heavy in the financial sector which are usually the hardest hit in a recession.  Luckily last year was good and one of those stocks paid an extra dividend. Old Republic International Corporation (ORI) has been on the DFG watchlist for some time now.  While the dividend growth rate is less than spectacular everything else looked good to me.  So overtime I have been picking up more shares.  At the end of January they paid a special $1 dividend.  It is probably the closest I will come to winning a lottery so I am very happy. Here are the companies that paid dividends to DFG in January: AmTrust Financial Services Inc AFSI $133.62 Cardinal Health Inc CAH $55....

Company Name Symbol Industry No. Years Dividend Yield Sector EPS% Payout +/-% vs. Graham Chowder Rule Principal Financial Group Inc. PFG Financial Services 10 3.02 Financials 33.44 (10.4) 22.7 Altria Group Inc. MO Tobacco 48 3.75 Consumer Staples 33.00 108.1 12.1 Brinker International EAT Restaurants 13 4.18 Consumer Discretionary 54.87 n/a 19.1 Old Republic International ORI Insurance 36 3.54 Financials 39.79 (22.9) 4.9 Edison International EIX Utility-Electric 15 3.87 Utilities 55.25 2.0 14.7 National Healthcare Corp. NHC Healthcare Facilities 14 3.08 Health Care 60.00 8.9 12.2 Meredith Corp. MDP Publishing 25 3.30 ...