These 3 Stocks Just Raised Their Dividends

These 3 Stocks Just Raised Their Dividends

A fresh breeze is blowing in the higher-dividend world, with activity picking up notably in recent weeks. Last week was another good one for income investors, with a clutch of notable stock market mainstays hiking their payouts.

For the second week in a row, it wasn't hard to find three juicy raisers out of that bunch. Read on to find out which stocks these were.

Tobacco giant Philip Morris International Inc. (NYSE: PM) is raising its quarterly dividend by just under 3% to $1.07 per share. That's hardly a surprise, as the company has been a consistent dividend payer, and once-per-year raiser, since the 2008 corporate split that created it and peer Altria.

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