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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. As a shareowner of Wal-Mart, I am not looking to add another general merchandise and food discount store to my portfolio. However, as a stock that has a place on the Dividend Aristocrat list I wanted to have a look at it. 25 years of dividend increases is nothing to sneeze at and the people …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. At the request of a reader, I am having a look at Altria this week. However, I fear it is a bit early to do so considering the fact that the company is in the process of spinning off Philip Morris. In addition, last year at this time the company spun off its Kraft Foods holdings. This …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. As a holder of Pfizer, I am not in the market for another pharmaceutical company. However, with the strong dividend growth that Abbott Labs has seen in the past 10 years, I would be tempted if the price was right. Let's have a look at ABT to see how it shapes up in the fundamentals and …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. I have been a shareholder of The Home Depot since 2004 when I purchased my initial shares at around $35. The share price has dropped since then as the company had some difficulties with revenue and EPS growth as well as the previous CEO being absolutely dreadful at working with shareholders. …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. Johnson Controls has been one the stocks that tends to be on dividend investor's lists primarily because of its very good track record of dividend increases. Add to that a number of years of good performance and you have a stock that has done well for investors. I wanted to see if the …

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This is an analysis completed by The Dividend Guy. It is not to be used as investment advice or a recommendation to buy, hold, or sell any stocks discussed. Please ensure you complete your own analysis. One stock that shows up on the list of high yield stocks list from the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats list is Automatic Data Processing. I have never looked at this stock before and thought I should. It has dropped a lot in the past few months along with all other stocks, especially financial …

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