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After a brief interruption to its rising dividend streak following the 2008 financial crisis, United Fire Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:UFCS) has now boosted its annual dividend for the sixth consecutive year with the current 10.7% boost to its quarterly dividend. Since introducing dividend distributions in 1987, the United Fire Group raised its annual dividend in 27 out of 31 years, or…

Compass Minerals International, Inc. (NYSE: CMP) has raised its annual dividend payout every year since initiating dividend distributions in 2004, and currently offers a 4.4% dividend yield. After seeing its share price decline over the past five years, Compass has leveled off and returned to some degree of share price stability over the last year or so, currently trading at…

Featured Image Source: http://www.pepsico.com/About PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ:PEP) saw its share price’s growing trend reverse in 2018 but the company continued to provide its shareholders with rising dividends and boosted its quarterly payout for the 46th consecutive year. PepsiCo has been a reliable provider of a rising dividends for nearly five decades. In addition to the strong dividend payouts, the company’s…

Home Depot, Inc (NYSE:HD) offers currently a 2.2% dividend yield, nine consecutive years of annual dividend hikes and has missed hiking its annual dividend only twice in the past two decades In addition to the steadily rising annual dividends, the company also provided its shareholders with robust asset appreciation over the past five years. The combined benefit of rising dividends…

Investors typically use dividend-paying stocks as a source of income but the payments can be reinvested through corporate Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs) – also called dividend reinvestment programs – to boost returns. Of course, investors always had the option to cash their dividend checks and then buy stocks in the open market. But fees and commissions can diminish the total value…