Here is a current sheet of companies that have announced a dividend increase within the recent week. In total, 41 stocks and funds raised dividends of which 18 have a dividend growth of more than 10 percent. The average dividend growth amounts to 39.01 percent. Exactly 9 stocks and funds have a yield over 5 percent (high-yield); 19 yield above three percent.

Eighteen companies are currently recommended to buy. Here are my favorite dividend growth stocks: SYSCO Corp. (SYY), Automatic Data Processing (ADP), Union Pacific (UNP) and Brown-Forman (BF.A).

Source: Guru Focus

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