Dividend watch:
It is a light week of anticipated dividend boosts with the earnings season winding down.
Dividend payout boosts are anticipated from UnitedHealth (UNH) to $1.65 from $1.45, Caterpillar (CAT) to $1.20 from $1.11, Essential Properties () to $0.27 from $0.26, and Clorox (NYSE:CLX) to $1.20 from $1.16.
Credit Suisse came out this week with an intriguing list of its favorite dividend aristocrats for investors to chew on.
The firm’s list of Outperform-rated U.S. stocks that offer investors healthy dividend yields backed by a history of growing dividends per share includes IBM (IBM), Chevron (CVX), Coca-Cola (KO), Emerson Electric (EMR), Stanley Black Decker (SWK), Nextera Energy (NEE), Colgate-Palmolive (CL), Sysco (SYY), McDonald’s (MCD) and Caterpillar (CAT).