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Featured Image Source: Company Website After two years of annual dividend reductions, The Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE:WMB) has offered its shareholders annual dividend hikes again for 2018. WMB sports a 4.5% current dividend yield. The annual dividend boost for 2018 is just one of 13 annual dividend hikes in the past 15 years. Compared to previous annual dividend amounts, the 2018…

In addition to nine consecutive years of annual dividend hikes, Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:PFG) boosted its quarterly dividend payout over the past 10 consecutive quarters. I say this because, in the first six months of 2018, the company’s share price fell nearly 30%. While a significant drop, PFG’s stock price fell more than 25% in early 2016, only to virtually…

Avangrid, Inc. (NYSE: AGR) -- a subsidiary of the Spanish utility company Iberdrola S.A. -- has declared a small boost to its quarterly dividend payment. This increase will take effect in the upcoming October distribution and puts the annual forward yield at 3.5% at current prices. The upcoming quarterly dividend increase represents the first one for the company since the 2015…

Pope Resources LP (NASDAQ: POPE) -- a Delaware Limited Partnership that manages timber resources in the U.S. Northwest -- is going to boost its quarterly distribution amount nearly 15% for the upcoming payout in mid-September 2018. This quarterly distribution hike marks the company’s return to raising its annual payouts after failing to do so in 2017. However, 2017 was an…

Dominion Energy, Inc. (NYSE:D) has been distributing dividends for more than nine decades and has rewarded its shareholders with its current streak of 15 consecutive annual dividend hikes. Prior to the beginning of the current 15-year streak of annual dividend hikes in 2004, the company paid the same $1.29 annual dividend amount for nearly a decade. The flat dividend payouts started…