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Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 04/08/2026
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Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 04/08/2026
The trusted CCC framework reborn by MaxDividends for a new generation of dividend investors.
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Dividend Radar by MaxDividends is a weekly update of reliable, dividend-growing companies — built on the timeless CCC method first introduced by David Fish.
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Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 04/08/2026
The legendary method of dividend discipline returns every Wednesday — powered by MaxDividends.
It’s official: Dividend Radar is back — now on MaxDividends — rebuilt, refreshed, and ready for your review.
A quick note:
Every edition of Dividend Radar by MaxDividends is powered by the deep, real-time data inside the MaxDividends App — including our advanced Screener, which scans over 19,000+ companies worldwide to surface the next dividend gems.
Explore it here: maxdividends.app/cabinet/scanner
🧾 Download the full Excel version below — just like the classic Dividend Radar everyone remembers.
🆕 What’s New
We added two new metrics to the export: P/FCF and PEG Ratio.
P/FCF (Price to Free Cash Flow)
This shows how much investors are paying for every dollar of the company’s free cash flow. In simple terms, it tells you how expensive the company is compared to the real cash it generates.
PEG Ratio (Price/Earnings to Growth)
This metric compares the company’s valuation with its expected earnings growth. Simply put, it helps you see if a stock is expensive or cheap relative to how fast the company is growing.
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Weekly Dividend Hikes — April 01–07, 2026
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Interesting Picks from Today’s Dividend Radar List
Bank OZK (OZK.US)
Last Div Date: 01.04.2026
Dividend: $0.46 → $0.47 (+2.17%)
Dividend Growth Streak: 25 consecutive years
Consistent Years: 26
Financial Score (Local): 90.45
A highly disciplined regional bank known for conservative underwriting and one of the longest dividend growth streaks among U.S. banks.
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Weekly Dividend Hikes — April 01–07, 2026
Weekly Dividend Hikes by MaxDividends — your trusted weekly briefing on every verified dividend increase across major global markets.
Each edition cuts through the noise to deliver clean, timely, data-backed insight into which companies are not only paying dividends — but actively raising them. From industrial giants and utilities to financials and specialized manufacturers, we track every notable hike that strengthens long-term income portfolios.
The mission stays unchanged: real data, real increases, real income growth — delivered before most of the market even reacts.
MaxDividends remains the world’s most complete, independently verified weekly source for dividend increase intelligence — trusted by income investors, compounding believers, and disciplined long-term builders.
💿 Weekly Dividend Hikes — April 01–07, 2026
A strong week with a clear split: several high-quality double-digit growers alongside more conservative financials maintaining their steady pace.
Industrial and niche leaders stood out, while traditional income names continued their disciplined capital return strategies.
🇺🇸 United States
Commercial Metals Company (CMC.US)
Last Div Date: 06.04.2026
Dividend: $0.18 → $0.20 (+11.11%)
Dividend Growth Streak: 4 consecutive years
Consistent Years: 23
Financial Score (Local): 96.27
A leading steel and metal recycling company benefiting from infrastructure demand and disciplined capital allocation, now showing renewed dividend growth momentum.
Watsco Inc (WSO.US)
Last Div Date: 01.04.2026
Dividend: $3.00 → $3.30 (+10.00%)
Dividend Growth Streak: 12 consecutive years
Consistent Years: 12
Financial Score (Local): 98.67
The largest HVAC distributor in North America, combining strong cash generation with consistent double-digit dividend growth and premium capital efficiency.
Bank OZK (OZK.US)
Last Div Date: 01.04.2026
Dividend: $0.46 → $0.47 (+2.17%)
Dividend Growth Streak: 25 consecutive years
Consistent Years: 26
Financial Score (Local): 90.45
A highly disciplined regional bank known for conservative underwriting and one of the longest dividend growth streaks among U.S. banks.
New York Times Company (NYT.US)
Last Div Date: 01.04.2026
Dividend: $0.18 → $0.23 (+27.78%)
Dividend Growth Streak: 7 consecutive years
Consistent Years: 13
Financial Score (Local): 94.93
A standout this week, driven by strong digital subscription growth and a successful transition into a diversified, recurring-revenue media platform.
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Merchants Trust PLC (MRCH.LSE)
Last Div Date: 02.04.2026
Dividend: £0.074 → £0.075 (+1.35%)
Dividend Growth Streak: 4 consecutive years
Consistent Years: 12
Financial Score (Local): 74.38
A traditional UK investment trust focused on income, continuing its conservative but steady dividend policy despite a modest growth rate.
⭐ Weekly Standouts
- New York Times Company — strong acceleration in payout (+27.78%)
- Commercial Metals Company — cyclical strength translating into double-digit growth
- Watsco Inc — consistent compounder with high-quality fundamentals
Why This Matters
Some hikes are modest, some are big — but all of them mean higher passive income. Week after week, this is how the compounding snowball keeps rolling.
👉 Congratulations to all shareholders who spotted their company among this week’s winners!
Full details are inside the MaxDividends App— where you can also set up email alerts to get notified about every dividend hike in real time.
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📜 Dividend Radar: The Origin Story
In the early 2000s, the late David Fish — an independent analyst and dividend-growth pioneer — created what became known as the Dividend Champions, Contenders & Challengers List (CCC List).
It was simple but powerful: group companies by how many years in a row they’ve raised their dividends. Over time, this evolved into Dividend Radar, a weekly update trusted by thousands of income investors.
For more than two decades, dividend investors across the world followed one proven framework — Dividend Radar, built on the timeless CCC method:
Champions. Contenders. Challengers.
It wasn’t just a list. It was a reputation. To be included meant a company had achieved what only the strongest businesses ever do — raising its dividend every single year, without fail.
Here’s the essence of David Fish’s the system:
Dividend Champions (Aristocrats)
Companies that raised their dividends for 25 years or more. These are the icons of reliability — the long-term legends.
Dividend Eagles
15-24 years of dividend growth, identified using a modernized, data-driven framework that goes beyond streak length alone. Eagles combine long-term consistency with strong financial quality — spotlighting companies that not only raise dividends, but do so with superior fundamentals, healthy balance sheets, and durable business models.
Dividend Contenders
10 to 24 years of consecutive increases. Proven performers with strong growth and discipline.
Dividend Challengers
5 to 9 years of raises. Rising stars on their way to the upper tiers.
For nearly twenty years, the CCC system served as the investor’s compass — until mid-2024, when Dividend Radar was quietly discontinued.
The updates stopped. The spreadsheet disappeared. And with it, one of the most respected tools in dividend investing was gone.
💡 MaxDividends Picks Up the Torch
Starting this week, we’re bringing it back — rebuilt, updated weekly, and fully integrated into the MaxDividends App.
This is Dividend Radar 2.0 — the trusted classic, reborn with modern analytics and live scoring.
⚙️ How It Works Now
Every Wednesday, we publish a refreshed MaxDividends Dividend Radar — a live list of companies that have raised dividends for at least five consecutive years.
Each company is automatically evaluated using our core metrics:
- Financial Scoring — overall business quality, stability, and balance-sheet strength
- Dividend Scoring — dividend consistency, yield sustainability, and growth momentum
Alongside these scores you’ll find: ticker and name, sector, years of raises, current yield, payout ratio, 5- and 10-year dividend CAGR, and key financial metrics (EPS, revenue growth, debt, cash flow).
Everything updates automatically — no manual files, no downloads. Just clean data inside the app.
🧭 What You’ll See Every Wednesday
- Top Dividend Champions — the elite 25+ year streaks
- Top Dividend Eagles – top names with 15–24 years of dividend growth — a curated, higher-quality subset that blends consistency with stronger fundamentals than the broad Contender group.
- Top Contenders — 10–24 year consistent raisers
- Top Challengers — 5–9 year up-and-comers
- This Week’s New Additions & Drops — who entered or fell off the list
- Dividend Raises of the Week — the latest increase announcements
Each name comes with a Financial Score, Dividend Score, yield, and growth rate — everything you need to spot quality and momentum at a glance.
💎 Why This Method Still Matters
Because true dividend growth isn’t luck — it’s discipline.
Companies that keep raising through recessions and rate cycles are built differently.
That’s why this approach stood the test of time for two decades. When you invest in consistent raisers, you’re not chasing price swings — you’re building income that grows year after year.
🗓 Every Wednesday
Each Wednesday morning, the new Dividend Radar 2.0 update goes live in your inbox.
Tomorrow’s first issue includes:
- All Dividend Champions
- Fresh Contenders with double-digit streaks
- Rising Challengers entering the radar
- All hikes, cuts, changes (soon)
As we move forward, we’ll gradually evolve it into a fully interactive experience inside the MaxDividends App — keeping the spirit of the original method alive while adding our own upgrades and precision analytics.
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