All Weather Stocks - General Mills Pays Steady Dividends
General
Mills (GIS),
a food company with well-known brands including Cheerios, Wheaties, Betty
Crocker, Pillsbury, Columbo and Progresso, for years has delivered steady
price and dividend appreciation to its shareholders.
GIS is on a long-term uptrend with the stock historically trading well
above its 10-year simple moving average (green line on chart below).
General Mills has paid uninterrupted dividends for 110 consecutive years.
And the company has never reduced a dividend. See a table
of dividend payments.
Since April 1990, GIS has increased its quarterly dividend from $0.1375
to $0.43, a 212.73 percent increase (6.18 percent annualized rate of return).
Its current dividend yield is 3.20 percent.
The combination of a persistent upside stock prices and increasing dividends
makes GIS an excellent candidate for a long-term dividend reinvestment
portfolio.
To get more performance information about GIS, use the buyupside.com
Stock Return Calculator. Enter GIS as the stock symbol on the calculator
input form.
See the buyupside.com
Dividend Chart Maker to view more dividends charts for GIS and other
dividend-paying stocks.
I (RAH) do not own GIS.
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Posted July 28, 2009.
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