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Tech Stocks with Growing Dividends |
Published: July 8, 2005
Investors can find
high-yielding stocks in some fairly obscure corners of the market.
However, income investors often overlook one promising group. I'm
talking about stocks that regularly increase their dividends, thereby
providing higher yields to investors who simply sit on them.
Here's how it works. Say you bought one of my current portfolio holdings
-- Johnson & Johnson (JNJ, $63.92) -- back in August 2001. At that
point in time the $53.75 stock paid a $0.72 dividend -- translating to a
puny 0.3% yield. Since then, however, the drugmaker has hiked its
dividend at an average clip of +16% per year. Currently, the $1.32
payout equates to an effective yield of 2.5% on the original purchase
price -- not to mention the +20% share price appreciation during that
span.
And JNJ is by no means an isolated example. Last year, 1,745 dividend
increases were announced -- +7% more than the prior year -- and the
trend continues to mount. What's more, the best performing stocks over
the past few months have been in sectors with the fastest growing
dividend payments.
Tech stocks are a prime example. Consider the CBOE Technology Index (TXX),
a proxy for 30 bellwether technology stocks in the hardware, software,
electronics, Internet and telecommunications industries. This index has
soared +35% in the past two years, which compares favorably to a +22%
rise in the broad-based S&P 500 Index. Meanwhile, technology stocks
have boosted their dividend payouts by an average of +44% over the same
period, according to PNC Financial Services Group.
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Income investors don't
typically turn to technology for yield, but that's changing. Over the
past few years, with mounds of cash sitting on the sidelines, this
sector has been consistently initiating and raising its dividend
payouts. Microsoft (MSFT, $24.65), with its $3 special dividend last
November, is a prime example, but there are others.
In today's column, I searched for the top dividend growers in the
technology sector. To do that, I screened for tech companies with
current yields above 2% (on par with dividend payers in the S&P)
that have boosted their dividends at least +5% annually over the past
three years.
Top Tech Stock Dividend-Growers
| Name |
Symbol |
July
7 Price |
Yield |
3-Yr.
Div. Growth |
| Inter-Tel |
INTL |
$18.78 |
6.9% |
+73.3% |
| Wireless
Telecom |
WTT |
$2.75 |
4.6% |
+44.2% |
| Nam
Tai |
NTE |
$22.85 |
3.9% |
+58.2% |
| Electro-Sensors |
ELSE |
$4.62 |
3.7% |
+10.1% |
| Espey |
ESP |
$30.15 |
3.6% |
+95.7% |
| Applied
Signal |
APSG |
$19.71 |
2.6% |
+38.7% |
| A.O.
Smith |
AOS |
$26.52 |
2.4% |
+6.0% |
| Hillenbrand |
HB |
$50.18 |
2.2% |
+8.7% |
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