Twenty years of increases. Easy to type, surprisingly easy to get wrong. Every dividend claim online deserves ten seconds of verification.
- Type a ticker, see every annual payout: check the streak and the shape (steady growth versus a flatline-then-jump) - Open it before every buy, not after; it kills more bad ideas than any screener - Verify list claims too; lists get copied from lists and errors compound by the third copy - Free apps sometimes cap history at five years; a streak claim needs the full history to be verifiable - Trust the data, not the headline; headlines are written to be clicked
DivPlan ($4.99 one-time) keeps the complete history for 197 payers, so the ten-second check is always available.