Dividend Growth 3

Dividend Growth 3

First let me give a warning note. I am only dealing with approximately 150 stocks so the sample is small. I have mostly, but not exclusively large dividend growth stocks. So it is probably best to look at this as interesting but it may not reflect what is happening in the TSX. However, I feel that it applies to me as I cover the stocks I own and also I am basically only interested in large dividend growth stocks and how they are doing.

On my Index Spreadsheet I record for each stock I follow what the dividend growth per year is for the past 5 years and for the past 10 years. In the chart below I am showing increases and decreases in growth between the 5 and 10 years growth. The implication is that if the 5 year growth is greater than the 10 year growth then dividend growth is increasing

For example if the 5 year dividend growth per year is 9% and the 10 years dividend growth is 5%, then dividend growth is higher in the past 5 years than in years 6 to 10. If growth has not change for example it was 9% per year for past 5 years and 9% per year for the past 10 years. My spreadsheet shows that few stocks have the same growth over both time periods. It also shows that stocks increasing their dividend growth are fewer at 36% than those decreasing their dividend growth which is 61%.

Current Spreadsheet	Change
Dividend growth increased	36.30%
Dividend growth decreased	61.48%
Dividend growth same	2.22%

I keep copies of my index spreadsheet each year. If I do the same analysis on my index at the end of 2015, the story is different. In this spreadsheet there are still few stocks keeping their dividends the same and amore decreasing their dividends. At the end of 2015 there were fewer dividend increases at 32%. The stocks with dividend increases are higher at 66%

Spreadsheet of 2015	Change
Dividend growth increased	32.31%
Dividend growth decreased	66.15%
Dividend growth same	1.54%

So comparing these spreadsheet results it seems that today, fewer companies are decreasing their dividends that at the end of 2015. My index for 2016 has data for stock year end of 2015 and 2014. My index for 2015 has stock year end data for 2014. We are only just over half way through the year so I have updated some 58% of the stocks I follow.

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