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United Security Bancshares (NYSE: UBFO) -- a regional bank in California – is set to hike its quarterly dividend amount 11% for the upcoming distribution in mid-October. For an eight-year period from 2008 through 2016, the bank suspended all dividend payments. Distributions resumed in 2017, and United Security has hiked the payout amount three times since then, effectively doubling the annual…

Featured Image Source: UDR, Inc. Investor Presenttaion June 2018 After cutting its annual dividend more than 45% during 2009, UDR, Inc. (NYSE:UDR) delivered to its shareholders a streak of seven consecutive annual dividend hikes. The most recent of the seven dividend hikes was in January 2018 and raised the total annualized dividend amount to $1.29, which currently corresponds to a 3.3%…

With an average annual dividend growth rate that was already above 35% since the 2008 financial crisis, JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM) delivered a 43% quarterly dividend hike for its final dividend distribution in 2018. After paying a flat dividend from 2002 to 2006, the company managed to hike its annual dividend for two years in a row before the crisis.…

Bank of Nova Scotia (NYSE:BNS) rewarded its shareholders with its seventh annual payout hike by increasing its next round of quarterly dividend distributions, scheduled for late October, by 3.7%. Over the past two decades, the company avoided dividend cuts and failed to raise its annual dividend on only one occasion. Unfortunately, the company’s share price experienced significantly more volatility, especially over…

What are the Dividend Kings? Dividend Kings is a category of S&P 500 companies with extraordinarily long records of consecutive annual dividend hikes. The specific requirements for admission to this elite group of dividend-paying companies is simple: to earn the Dividend Kings moniker, an S&P 500 company must have a market capitalization of more than $3 billion and a record of…