Our Top 40 Favorite Dividend Champions: Blue-Chip Dividend Growth Stocks
Chuck Carnevale | May 24, 2012 02:43AM ET
In part one of this two-part series (43 Dividend Champions On Sale: A Rare Opportunity
Both of these articles and their lists of Dividend Champions are offered as candidates for long-term ownership of the businesses behind the stocks. I have always held that long term is defined as at least a business cycle (3-5 Years Minimum). When I invest in a company, I buy earnings in a company today that I believe will grow into more earnings tomorrow. This is my expected source of greater dividends and capital appreciation from the capitalization of my greater earnings. Not from fickle Mr. Market behavior.
Disclosure: Long MKC, JCI, ITW, SYY, JNJ, PG, PEP, GPC, MCD, ITW, MDT, AFL, MHP, ABT, MO, T, KMB, CLX, XOM, BCR at the time of writing.
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