Dividend Track Records

Cincinnati Financial (Nasdaq: CINF) will raise its quarterly dividend by 4,5%.

Dividend Aristocrat HCP will raise its quarterly dividend by 3,7%.

The Black Hills Corp (NYSE: BHK) will raise its quarterly dividend by 3,9%.

Industrial gases company Praxair will raise its quarterly dividend by 10%.

S&P Dow Jones Indices had announced its annual changes for the High Yield Dividend Aristocrats Index. Eight new stocks will be added, including Realty Income, Mercury General and Ross Stores. Also three stocks are deleted.

Discount retailer Family Dollar Stores will be deleted from the Dividend Aristocrats Index after a takeover bid by Dollar Tree was approved on Thursday January 22nd.

Enterprise Bancorp has announced a 4,2% dividend hike for the first quarter of 2015, marking the 21st year of dividend increases.

Consolidated Edison, one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy companies, will raise its quarterly dividend by 3,2%.

Oil services company Schlumberger (SLB) will raise it's quarterly dividend by 25% to $0.50 per share. Schlumberger (NYSE: SLB) will have an indicated dividend yield of 2.6% at Thursday's closing price of $76.63.

Linear Technology will raise its quarterly dividend by 11%.

The 54 Dividend Aristocrats representing S&P's well known Dividend Aristocrats Index raised their dividend by an average of 10.1% in 2014. The biggest dividend increase came from industrial Pentair.