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These Dividend Stocks Just Gave Their Investors a Raise. Here's Why That's a Big Deal.

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Microsoft recently increased its dividend by another 11% .

Realty Income recently bumped up its monthly dividend from $ 0.2635 per share.

Verizon recently raised its payment for the 18th consecutive year , maintaining the longest current streak in the U.S. telecom sector.

Dividend growers and initiators are driving the returns, according to Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research .

Microsoft , Verizon , and Realty Income have recently raised their investors' payouts.

With more growth ahead, they're in solid positions to produce above-average total returns in the future.

Consider when Nvidia made this list on April 15, 2005 ... if you invested $ 1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $ 722,320 !.

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