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Dividend CAGR

Annualized growth rate of dividends per share. How much the dividend has compounded each year.

Dividend CAGR is the average yearly growth rate of the per-share dividend over a stretch of time (5 years by default here). A business growing its dividend at 8% a year doubles the owner's income roughly every nine years.

Dividend growth kept up for decades is the mark of a true compounder. Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and similar businesses are prized for it. But watch out for dividend growth that comes from paying out a bigger and bigger share of earnings, because that eventually hits a wall. Healthy dividend growth comes from growing earnings, not from handing out a larger slice of the same profit.

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