Choosing Dividend Growth Stocks

First off you need to use tools to monitor the performance of your Stocks. One tool to use is to check for dividend increases within your Portfolio. The rate of growth in a company's dividends shows that they are near a term management sentiment of profitability for their enterprise. If the management of the company is as usual then they are more likely to maintain the dividend rate and even increase. If the stock sees a tougher business environment then the management might lower the dividend rate. One stock I'm interested in is Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM), which designs, develops, manufactures, and markets digital communications products and services in Asia. Recently they've increased their dividend by 14.3% to 48 cents per shares. This is their thirteenth year in a row that they've increased their dividend. The company also selling for 13.8 times forward earnings and yields which are 2.8%.