Income Boosters: 3 Stocks With Newly Announced Dividend Hikes

Few investment strategies on Wall Street have proven to work as effectively as buying dividend stocks. Over the past 100 years, dividend payers outperformed those who didn’t pay a dividend by a wide margin. There is good reason for that. Companies that share their success with investors are successful and profitable ventures with goods and services people want to buy. Typically, they’ve also been through several business cycles and weathered the storm in fine fashion. It’s natural they’d want to reward their shareholders as well. Of special note are those stocks with rising dividends. In 2013, the wealth asset division of JPMorgan…