Dividend growth continues to slow amid uncertainty over U.S. trade policy. Happily, income investors can still count on select S&P 500 stocks to deliver sizable and reliable hikes to their payouts.
U.S. dividend payers collectively raised their payouts by $14 billion in the third quarter, according to the latest data from S&P Dow Jones Indices. While that represents a 43% increase vs Q2, on a year-over-year basis, dividend hikes fell by 0.7%.
