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So while we may enjoy spending a few bucks in the restaurants the company owns, we think an investment in the stock of the company at current price levels will only lead to dysentery.

While some investors viewed Petsmart’s 233% dividend raise as extremely important, I found the increases from several high yield stocks to be very intriguing as well.

In this environment many income investors are happy to see any dividend increase. Not all companies are hiding behind the economic downturn and short-changing their dividend increases. To the contrary, PetSmart (PETM) after an extensive analysis plans to significantly increase its dividend.

I explain how I go about researching possible short investments, using DRI as a case study.

Dividend investors have a lot to be thankful for. The 60 companies making up the Dividend Aristocrats have outperformed the S&P 500 index year-to-date by almost 12 percentage points. SmartMoney recently published a dividend growth stock screen with the following criteria:

An delicious analysis of the Cheesecake Factory!