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4 Dividend Champions With Encouraging Inventory Trends
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Published Tue, 13 Sep 2011 14:00:43 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
Inventory can give a very helpful look into the operational health of a company, especially when compared to revenue growth. We ran a screen on dividend champions (i.e. stocks that have consistently raised their dividend over the last 25 years) for those that have exhibited encouraging inventory trends year-over-year: Increases in quarterly revenue exceeding increases in quarterly inventory year-over-year, as well as inventory becoming a smaller portion of current assets. To help understand why these trends are positive, think of why the opposite trends would be negative. If inventory were growing faster than revenue, it would probably indicate that the company is having trouble selling its inventory. Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research. We also created a price-weighted index of the... Read more
Stock name ISIN Last trade P/E Earnings/Share Dividend/Share Dividend yield COCA-COLA 
US1912161007 42.97 22.6 1.91 1.12 2.61 LANCASTER COLONY
US5138471033 83.26 20.7 4.01 1.52 1.83 CARLISLE
US1423391002 67.34 16.5 4.07 0.80 1.19