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With current investment providers offering thousands of exchange-traded funds (ETFs), even individual and part-time investors easily can find the best dividend ETFs for their particular investment strategy by going to a single provider. If that single provider happens to be The Vanguard Group, the offerings become even better than average. Since Vanguard is the world’s second-largest provider of exchange-traded funds (ETFs)…

The Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) has offered its shareholders annual dividend hikes for the past 43 consecutive years and currently offers a 2.8% dividend yield. The company has been distributing quarterly dividends since 1927 and made the distributions in the form of stock dividends for decades before switching to cash dividend distributions in 2001. ADM’s current 2.8% dividend yield is…

The Marathon Petroleum Corporation (NYSE:MPC) -- the second-largest petroleum refiner in the United States -- Delivered to its shareholders consecutive annual dividend hikes for the past seven years and currently offers its shareholders a 2.8% dividend yield. The overall market selloff and the oil price decline since the beginning of October 2018 pushed the share price into a steep downtrend. However,…

The Hershey Company (NYSE:HSY) has managed to boost its annual dividend every year but one since 1998 and currently offers its shareholders a dividend yield of 2.7%. While many companies were forced to reduce or eliminate their dividend distributions during the 2008 financial crisis, the Hershey company managed to avoid dividend cuts, paid a flat annual dividend in 2009 and resumed…

Featured image source: Company websites. Logos are registered trademarks of the respective companies.  In line with its tradition, Baron Capital Management invited the chief executive officers of four public companies, including two dividend payers, to present to more than 5,000 shareholders at the 2018 Baron Investment Conference in New York. Portfolio managers at Baron Funds consider these four companies as investments…