Dividend Champions For Further Research

I believe that in order to be successful in investing, one needs to have a strategy that they can stick to, through thick or thin. This strategy should help you identify and reach your investment goals and objectives.

This strategy should address a few items, such as what to buy, when to buy and when to sell.

Knowing what to buy is especially helpful if you have a population of candidates for further research. One can narrow that population by using some simple criteria. Having a list of companies I am interested in can be very helpful when markets provide opportunities like today.

For example, I went through the list of dividend champions, and identified all the companies that have managed to grow annual dividends by at least 6%/year over the past one, three, five and ten years. I then compiled a ready list for futher research here: