Dividend Radar Dead

[Dividend Watcher]

Well, it seems we no longer have a comprehensive list of dividend growth stocks. 

Per the announcement on their website:

Quote:Dividend Radar has been discontinued

After much consideration, we have decided to discontinue Dividend Radar, our weekly publication of dividend stocks. This was not an easy decision, as we know many of you have come to rely on the list as part of your investing research. We’ve chosen to shift our focus toward new opportunities and projects.

We want to thank you sincerely for your readership, support, and feedback over the years. It has been a privilege to serve you.

The Dividend Champions list, better known to many as the "CCC list", was created and maintained by David Fish, Executive Editor of the Moneypaper. At the time, the Moneypaper was written to help investors with dividend reinvestment plans (DRIPs) in their investing journey. This was long before brokerages handled dividend reinvestment. He also was a co-manager of the MP63 Fund, a mutual fund dedicated to dividend growth investing.

I first found Mr. Fish on Seeking Alpha following the Great Recession (2008-09) -- sometime around 2010 or 2011. He had been publishing a list of companies with 25+ years of dividend increases. When I found his spreadsheets, they had been expanded to include companies with greater than 5 years of dividend growth history and separated into three groups:

• Dividend Champions: U.S. stocks that have grown dividends for the last 25+ consecutive years
  
• Dividend Contenders: U.S. stocks that have grown dividends for the last 10-24 consecutive years
  
• Dividend Challengers: U.S. stocks that have grown dividends for the last 5-9 consecutive years
  

Sadly, Mr. Fish died in 2018 and Justin Law took over maintaining the list for a few years before rebranding it to the Dividend Radar spreadsheet and making some changes along the way.

As of now, I haven't found a comprehensive list to replace the CCC/Dividend Radar list. Perhaps there is no interest in dividend growth investing any more with all the new-fangled technology and the emphasis on growth stocks. It definitely is a monumental task.

David Fish was monumental to me in my investment journey setting up a comfortable income stream for retirement. He was always generous with his time and wisdom and shared freely.


As an aside, if anyone has a saved copy of his bio or the tributes on Seeking Alpha, I'd appreciate a copy.