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RPM International, Inc. (NYSE: RPM) offers shareholders more than four decades of consecutive annual dividend hikes, a forward 2.1% yield and long-term asset appreciation over the past two decades. In comparison to some other high-yield sectors, RPM International’s current dividend yield doesn’t seem that impressive, but it outperforms the average yield of the overall Industrial Goods sector and is the third highest…

Life Storage, Inc. (NYSE: LSI) has boosted its annual dividend amount for the past five consecutive years and currently offers a 4% dividend yield. Over the past two decades, LSI has an 80% track record of annual dividend boosts, the only exceptions being one dividend cut in 2009 and three years where payouts were flat. Despite some volatility in the stock…

While exchange-traded funds (ETF) are convenient investment vehicles to pursue capital growth and diversification without the need to analyze and select individual stocks, income-seeking investors can benefit from a wide selection of high dividend ETFs. Even though they have not existed as long as mutual funds, ETFs have some advantages. ETFs, unlike mutual funds, can be traded like stocks throughout…

After cutting its dividend 60% in the first quarter of 2013, Watsco, Inc. (NYSE:WSO) rebuilt its annual dividend amount to the pre-cut level in less than three years and advanced the total annual payout five-fold over the past five years. The company managed to achieve that level of dividend payout advancement with an average annual dividend growth rate that averaged more…

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE:PNC) continued its seven-year streak of consecutive dividend boosts with a 27% quarterly dividend hike for its upcoming dividend distribution in early August 2018. The company cut its quarterly dividend only once over the past two decades. In addition to an 85% cut to its quarterly dividend payout from $0.66 in the first quarter of 2009…