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Dividend Radar is a weekly updated list of reliable, dividend-growing companies — built on the timeless CCC method first introduced by David Fish.

Dividend Radar — Weekly Edition · 10/07/2026

The legendary method of dividend discipline returns every Wednesday — powered by MaxDividends.

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Interesting Picks from Today’s Dividend Radar List

Accenture plc (ACN)

The global professional services company provides consulting, technology, digital transformation, cloud, and managed services to businesses and organizations worldwide.

  • Last Div Date: 01.10.2026

  • Dividend: $1.63 → $1.71 (+4.91%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 20 consecutive years

  • Business Quality Score: 97/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 97/99 (Premium only)

💿 Dividend Hikes — September-October 28–05, 2026

This period brought another broad round of dividend increases across the U.S., Europe, and Japan, with companies across financials, technology, utilities, healthcare, industrials, and consumer businesses raising their payouts.

⭐ This Week’s Standouts

  • 🇯🇵 Yamaguchi Financial Group, Inc. (8418) — The week’s biggest hike came from Yamaguchi Financial Group, but what makes it especially notable is the scale of the move for a mature regional banking business. A 50% dividend increase after nearly two decades of consistent payments is a meaningful step-up in shareholder distributions.

  • 🇯🇵 F&M Co., Ltd. (4771) — F&M stands out for combining an unusually large 42.86% hike with a much longer record of dividend reliability than the size of the increase might suggest. The business has now paid consistent dividends for 20 years, including 14 consecutive years of growth.

  • 🇯🇵 TKC Corporation (9746) — TKC pairs one of the week’s largest increases with particularly strong quality metrics. Its 29.09% hike comes alongside a 96/99 Business Quality Score and 96/99 Dividend Score, making it one of the more interesting combinations of dividend growth and underlying business quality in this week’s group.

🇺🇸 United States

Bank OZK (OZK)

  • Last Div Date: 01.10.2026

  • Dividend: $0.48 → $0.49 (+2.08%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 25 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 26

  • Business Quality Score: 90/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 90/99 (Premium only)

The company is a U.S. regional bank providing commercial and consumer banking services, with a significant presence in real estate and construction lending.

American Financial Group, Inc. (AFG)

  • Last Div Date: 01.10.2026

  • Dividend: $0.88 → $0.97 (+10.23%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 20 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 20

  • Business Quality Score: 90/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 90/99 (Premium only)

The company is an insurance holding company focused primarily on specialty property and casualty insurance products.

Accenture plc (ACN)

  • Last Div Date: 01.10.2026

  • Dividend: $1.63 → $1.71 (+4.91%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 20 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 20

  • Business Quality Score: 97/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 97/99 (Premium only)

The global professional services company provides consulting, technology, digital transformation, cloud, and managed services to businesses and organizations worldwide.

City Holding Company (CHCO)

  • Last Div Date: 30.09.2026

  • Dividend: $0.87 → $1.00 (+14.94%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 14 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 24

  • Business Quality Score: 89/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 89/99 (Premium only)

The financial holding company operates through City National Bank and provides banking, lending, trust, and investment services.

🇯🇵 Japan

TKC Corporation (9746)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥55 → ¥71 (+29.09%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 11 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 19

  • Business Quality Score: 96/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 96/99 (Premium only)

The company provides information-processing, accounting, tax, and software services primarily to accounting firms, businesses, and local governments.

Hikari Tsushin, Inc. (9435)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥195 → ¥200 (+2.56%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 13 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 13

  • Business Quality Score: 95/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 95/99 (Premium only)

The company operates across telecommunications, office services, insurance, utilities, and other subscription-based products and services.

Hamakyorex Co., Ltd. (9037)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥20 → ¥23 (+15.00%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 10 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 10

  • Business Quality Score: 92/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 92/99 (Premium only)

The company provides logistics and distribution services, including third-party logistics, warehousing, freight transportation, and supply-chain management.

Mizuho Leasing Company, Limited (8425)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥25 → ¥26 (+4.00%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 16 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 16

  • Business Quality Score: 92/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 92/99 (Premium only)

The company provides leasing and financing solutions across equipment, real estate, mobility, environmental infrastructure, and other corporate assets.

Yamaguchi Financial Group, Inc. (8418)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥32 → ¥48 (+50.00%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 14 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 19

  • Business Quality Score: 86/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 84/99 (Premium only)

The regional financial group provides banking and other financial services primarily through its banking subsidiaries in western Japan.

Komeri Co., Ltd. (8218)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥28 → ¥29 (+3.57%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 10 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 33

  • Business Quality Score: 96/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 96/99 (Premium only)

The company operates a large network of home improvement stores in Japan, selling hardware, building materials, gardening products, agricultural supplies, and household goods.

Toyota Tsusho Corporation (8015)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥58 → ¥62 (+6.90%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 16 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 16

  • Business Quality Score: 94/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 92/99 (Premium only)

The diversified trading company operates across mobility, metals, energy, chemicals, food, machinery, electronics, and other global businesses.

Shin-Etsu Polymer Co., Ltd. (7970)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥30 → ¥33 (+10.00%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 10 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 15

  • Business Quality Score: 95/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 95/99 (Premium only)

The company manufactures precision-molded products, semiconductor-related components, electronic devices, and other products based on polymer-processing technologies.

E-Guardian Inc. (6050)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥35 → ¥38 (+8.57%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 13 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 13

  • Business Quality Score: 97/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 97/99 (Premium only)

The company provides digital risk-management services, including content monitoring, customer support, cybersecurity, and fraud-prevention solutions.

Sanwa Holdings Corporation (5929)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥62 → ¥73 (+17.74%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 5 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 16

  • Business Quality Score: 98/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 98/99 (Premium only)

The company manufactures and supplies building products including shutters, doors, partitions, and other access and security systems.

F&M Co., Ltd. (4771)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥21 → ¥30 (+42.86%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 14 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 20

  • Business Quality Score: 96/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 96/99 (Premium only)

The company provides management support, consulting, accounting-related services, and back-office solutions primarily for small and medium-sized businesses.

Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corporation (4091)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥29 → ¥33 (+13.79%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 12 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 22

  • Business Quality Score: 94/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 94/99 (Premium only)

The company operates in the industrial gases business, supplying gases and related equipment and technologies to customers across manufacturing, electronics, healthcare, and other industries.

Oriental Consultants Holdings Company Limited (2498)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥110 → ¥130 (+18.18%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 10 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 10

  • Business Quality Score: 94/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 94/99 (Premium only)

The company provides infrastructure consulting, engineering, planning, project management, and related professional services.

Chubushiryo Co., Ltd. (2053)

  • Last Div Date: 29.09.2026

  • Dividend: ¥30 → ¥38 (+26.67%)

  • Dividend Growth Streak: 2 consecutive years

  • Consistent Years: 10

  • Business Quality Score: 81/99 (Premium only)

  • Dividend Score: 77/99 (Premium only)

The company operates primarily in the animal feed business, producing and selling compound feeds and related agricultural products.

👉 Congratulations to all shareholders who spotted their company among this week’s winners!

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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.

⚙️ 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:

  • Business Quality Score — overall business quality, stability, and balance-sheet strength

  • Dividend Safety Score — 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 MaxDividends Platform.

The Dave Fish Dividend Strategy

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Dave Fish, creator of the famous CCC (Champions, Contenders, Challengers) list, never claimed to have a complex investing system. His approach was remarkably simple:

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Buy high-quality companies with long histories of dividend growth. Hold them while the dividend keeps growing and the business remains strong. Sell only when the original investment thesis breaks. Today, every part of that philosophy can be tracked using MaxDividends metrics.

BUY

Look for companies that meet these conditions:

✅ Long History of Dividend Growth

  • 10+ consecutive years of annual dividend increases

✅ Safe Dividend

  • Dividend Safety Score: 90+

  • Payout Ratio: Below 70%

✅ Strong and Durable Business

  • Business Quality Score: 90+

✅ Reasonable Valuation

  • Rated Fairly Valued or Undervalued

✅ Attractive Income Potential

  • MaxRatio: 8+

This combination identifies companies that not only pay dividends today, but have a high probability of continuing to grow those dividends for years to come.

HOLD

Continue holding as long as:

✅ The dividend continues to grow

✅ The business remains financially strong

For Dave Fish, most successful investments were measured in years and decades, not quarters.

SELL

Consider selling when:

❌ Dividend Cut

❌ Dividend Freeze

❌ Significant Deterioration in Business Quality

  • Business Quality Score falls below 80

  • Dividend Safety Score falls below 80

A dividend growth portfolio does not require frequent trading. The key is monitoring whether the original reasons for owning the company are still intact.

Every metric used in this framework is available inside the weekly Dividend Radar by MaxDividends publication and is continuously updated inside the MaxDividends Research Platform.

🧭 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

  • 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 Research Platform — keeping the spirit of the original method alive while adding our own upgrades and precision analytics.

🦅 Dividend Radar 2.0 Is Back — Powered by MaxDividends

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