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Mobile Mini, Inc. (NASDAQ:MINI) boosted its first-quarter dividend amount more than 10% for the fourth consecutive year and offers its shareholders a 2.4% yield. In addition to the rising dividend, the company rewarded its investors with asset appreciation of more than 30% and a total return of nearly 34% over the past 12 months. The company’s fourth-quarter results exceeded analysts’…

Polaris Industries, Inc. (NYSE:PII) hiked its quarterly dividend more than 3% for the first quarter of 2018 to extend its current streak of annual dividend boosts to 20 consecutive years. While the company’s current dividend yield might not seem high compared to other industries, Polaris’ 2.2% yield is above industry average and higher than all but one yield in the…

Carnival Corporation & plc (NYSE:CCL, LSE:CCL and NYSE:CUK) offered a double-digit percentage asset appreciation in the past 12 months and currently serves its shareholders a 2.6% dividend yield. The company’s current streak of consecutive dividend hikes is only four years. However, the company has cut its dividend only once in the past 25 years. Additionally, the company announced its 2017…

By Tim McPartland While it is likely that most income investors own a broadly diversified portfolio of securities which pay dividends and interest, we like to own a more concentrated portfolio of almost all-term preferred stock and short-maturity baby bonds. We wrote about these types of securities last week in this space and the article can be found here. From…

Avista Corporation (NYSE:AVA) hiked its current quarterly dividend distribution 4.2% and offers its shareholders a 3% dividend, as well as a nearly 30% one-year asset appreciation. With the current dividend boost, the Avista Corporation upped its current streak to 16 consecutive years of annual dividend increases. The share price experienced some organic growth over the past 12 months. However, more…