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Medifast Inc. has a dividend payout history of only two years, but the company followed up last year’s 28% annual dividend payout hike with a 50% annual dividend boost this year and the dividend currently yields 2.6%. While the company’s current yield is 24% lower than it was in the first quarter of 2017, it is still a good yield…

The Tri-Continental Corporation enhanced its dividend payout 23.3% this quarter to continue a streak of similar dividend hikes over the past eight successive years. In addition to the extraordinary growth of the annual dividend payouts, the company achieved a 20%-plus asset appreciation over the past year and pays a 4.1% yield, which is above the sector average. The next ex-dividend…

Agree Realty boosted its annual dividend payout for the sixth consecutive year and over that period maintained an average growth rate of 4.5% per year. The company’s current yield is 4.2% and its one-year asset appreciation is 9%, which rewarded its shareholders with a combined total return of 14.75%. Agree Realty will pay its next dividend distribution in the first…

KAR Auction Services Inc. (NYSE:KAR) raised its quarterly dividend nearly 10%, which is the company’s fifth consecutive boost of its total annual dividend payout since it started paying dividends in 2012. In addition to consecutive annual dividend hikes over the past few years, which currently yield 2.73%, the company rewarded its shareholders with steady asset appreciation over the same period.…

DCT Industrial Trust Inc. (NYSE:DCT) hiked its quarterly dividend for 2018 more than 16% and currently pays a 2.4% yield. In addition to increasing its income distribution to shareholders, the company grew its share price more than 25% and into all-time record territory in the last 12 months. The combined benefit of rising dividend income and higher share price resulted…