Author: Tim Plaehn, Investors Alley

Finding stable companies that regularly increase their dividends is the strategy that I use myself to produce superior results, no matter if the market moves up or down in the shorter term…

One currently yields 5.6% and has been growing its dividend by 6% to 8% every year…

One yields 5.8% and has grown its dividend by about 7% per year. The other yields 3.1% and has 26 years of uninterrupted dividend growth…

They’re popular among income investors because of their large dividend payments, but they don’t pass my risk rules…

For a company with such a high yield, it has strong and surprising cash flow and dividend numbers…