Most Folks Who Are Thomas Cameron's age pay close attention to dividends, thinking only of their current income. But Cameron, 77, has an entirely different motivation for being in love with dividends. Consistent dividend payers, he says, have a higher total return than other stocks. "Stocks go up when dividends go up; it's just.that simple," says Cameron, former chairman of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. He came by his affinity for dividends as a young analyst covering utilities, which are habitually big payers. He says you should buy stocks that have had handsome and regular dividend increases over the past decade. Out of 12,000 stocks traded in the U.S., a mere 156 have raised dividends in every year of the last ten and have raised them at an average annual rate of at least 10%. Let's call these Dividend Dazzlers.
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