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The WestRock Company (NYSE: WRK) -- one of the largest providers of protective packaging and shipping products -- currently offers a 3.1% dividend yield and its share price could be poised to ride the e-commerce growth wave in support of the company's rising dividend. Right now, WestRock faces an interesting predicament – its annual dividend is rising, but the share price has…

MPLX LP (NYSE:MPLX) has raised its quarterly dividend distribution amount every quarter since it started its quarterly dividend distributions in 2013 and currently offers its shareholders a 7% dividend yield. Following many midstream energy companies affected by the crude oil price decline in 2015, MPLX saw its share price deteriorate more than 77% between February 2015 and February 2016, which…

After resuming dividend distributions in 2011, Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE:C) extended three years of dividend hikes with a 40% dividend hike to its upcoming quarterly dividend distribution. The company started paying dividend distributions in 1986 and hiked its annual dividend for more than two decades before the 2008 financial crisis. From the $5.40 quarterly dividend paid in the last quarter of 2017,…

Energy Transfer Equity, L.P. (NYSE:ETE) has rewarded its shareholders with dividend hikes every year since it started paying dividend in 2006. In addition to more than a decade of consecutive annual dividend hikes, the company also offers its shareholders an above-average dividend yield of almost 7% and a double-digit-percentage average growth rate. The company’s share price took a significant hit in…

CMS Energy Corporation (NYSE: CMS) has provided an annual dividend hike for the past 11 consecutive years and currently offers its shareholders a 3% dividend yield. Before offering an annual dividend hike for each of the past 11 consecutive years, CMS had suspended dividend distributions between 2003 and 2006. 11 years later, the story is quite different, and CMS is…