Hi Everyone,

Welcome to the July There’s Value dividend stocks watch list. I have decided to change the format a little from the way I used to do our watch lists; instead of listing the stocks by FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 membership, I have decided to list them in descending order of years of increasing dividends. I have also switched where my data is coming from, as I no longer receive monthly spreadsheets from someone, but am using Trevor’s excellent resource over at DividendChampions.uk – because he is doing an excellent job and I think we should support him, so do check out his website which is fab.

One of the great things about Trevor’s site, is that he does not limit his research to the FTSE350, but also includes the wider market and the AIM market. I know this is not always to everyone’s investing tastes, but the AIM market actually has several older companies and well known names (such as Burberry) who have chosen to list on it, rather than on the main markets – so perhaps we should not rule out everything outside of the FTSE 350?

I am however, still filtering the data according to some of my “There’s Value investing rules” which, for example, excludes companies with a PE of >25 and a dividend cover of <1.2 (this used to be 1.5 but I lowered it because infrastructure and Investment Trusts tend to often have less dividend cover, but in a non-worrying way). I have not excluded companies with low dividend % payouts, as I know some of you would buy them for their growth potential, whereas for me, I tend to lean towards an average of 4%, but between 2.75 and 5.5% as a general area to aim for.

As always, please do your own research and treat this as just a place to get potential ideas to look into further. I am not recommending that you invest in any of these companies!

25+ years of increasing dividends:

10-24 Year of increasing dividends:

7+ Years of increasing dividends:

So, what do you think of the list? Are there any surprises there, or companies which you would have expected to be there but aren’t? Do you have a completely different way of finding companies to invest in? What’s on your July watch list? Let me know, leave a comment below!