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Featured Image Source: Steve Morgan via Wikipedia In addition to the company’s fifth consecutive annual hike, the Banner Corporation (NASDAQ:BANR) offers its shareholders a 2.3% dividend yield that outperformed the average yield of the company’s peers in the Savings & Loans financial industry segment. During the 2008 financial crisis, the Banner Corporation’s quarterly dividend suffered two cuts that amassed to a total drop…

With a track record of 34 consecutive years of annual dividend hikes, AT&T, Inc. (NYSE: T) offers investors an excellent source of dividend income and a current dividend yield of 6.2%. Though some of AT&T’s yield growth can be attributed to rising dividend income, it came about mainly as a result of the company’s stock price decline since mid-2016, the beginning of…

The Brady Corporation (NYSE:BRC) rewarded its long-term shareholders with a steady dividend income since its formation, as well as annual dividend hikes over the past 32 consecutive years. While the company’s current 2.2% dividend yield still outperforms average industry yields, the current yield is slightly lower than the Brady Corporation’s average yield over the past five years. A yield decline caused by…

OGE Energy Corporation (NYSE: OGE) has hiked its annual dividend for the past 12 consecutive years and currently offers a 3.8% dividend yield that outperforms the company’s industry peers. In addition to a dozen years of consecutive hikes, OGE Energy has distributed dividends for more than a century and -- adjusted for stock splits -- has had no quarterly dividend cuts for…

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Corporation (NYSE:BMY) offers its shareholders a 2.9% dividend yield  and eight consecutive years of rising dividend payouts. After rising over the first eight months of the trailing 12-month period, the company’s share price suffered a drop of nearly 27% drop between February and April 2018. However, the share price reversed direction and embarked on another rising trend…