Mergent's Dividend Achievers Spring 2004 Featuring Full-Year Results for 2003

To find the most consistent dividend-paying stocks, professional investment managers, analysts, and knowledgeable individual investors use Mergent's Dividend Achieverstrade;-the definitive guide for sound investments. Mergent's Dividend Achieverstrade; profiles approximately 300 U.S. companies that have increased their regular cash dividends annually for the past ten or more consecutive years. These are truly remarkable companies. The average total return of these Dividend Achiever companies has outperformed the S&P 500 for the last ten years. From our Dividend Achievers, you can put together an extraordinary, diversified portfolio. They include large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap companies. The companies represent more than fifty different industries, from consumer goods to real estate to utilities. For each Dividend Achiever company, this handbook provides a full-page profile with in-depth investment criteria, including a stock performance chart, dividend record, business description, seven years of financial results and ratios, analysis of recent developments and more. With just a glance, you can see how the company has done in the past and decide whether you want to investigate further. This latest edition includes numerous valuable rankings, such as ten-year average annual dividend growth rate; one-, three-, and five-year total returns; top twenty return on equity and return on assets; along with top twenty rankings by revenue, net income, total assets, long-term and short-term price scores, highest and lowest P/E ratios, and more! And now, with new tax law changes slashing dividend taxes, investing in Dividend Achiever companies has never been better! Our Dividend Achievers will provide low-taxed income today and perhaps low-taxed capital gains tomorrow. A Century of Providing Trusted Information For over a century, Mergent has been the preferred source for global business and financial information. Providing comprehensive data to savvy investors-both novice and professional, Mergent offers the easy way to pick specific stocks that excel at paying dividends and piling up profits.Mergent Inc. Staff, Mergent is the author of 'Mergent's Dividend Achievers Spring 2004 Featuring Full-Year Results for 2003', published 2004 under ISBN 9780471659693 and ISBN 047165969X.