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Dividend Hikes of the Week is not a news feed. It’s proof. Every line below confirms a simple idea we already understand from experience:

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The world pays those who own the right businesses. And those businesses can be found systematically.

At MaxDividends we track more than 19,000 companies worldwide — but only the elite make it into this list: businesses that have been paying dividends for 10+ years without a cut.

We don’t guess. We don’t hope. We don’t “believe in the market.” We track real cash that companies are paying to shareholders right now — and have been paying year after year.

That’s how income you can live on is built.

How to Read This Update (Important)

This series is not about chasing a weekly percentage. It’s about three things that separate investors with a system from everyone else.

1️⃣ Money Is Being Paid. Regularly. Worldwide.

Different currencies. Different cycles. Same result: Businesses earn money → share profits → investor income grows. This is what real global income diversification looks like — not a theory, not a textbook example.

2️⃣ Dividend Growth Follows Business Strength

There’s no magic here. Every increase you see comes from:

  • durable cash flow

  • payout room

  • disciplined management

  • business models that survive cycles

That’s why most companies in this list carry Financial Scores between 90 and 99. That’s not decoration. That’s a survival filter.

3️⃣ Income Is Built Quietly

None of these companies are shouting. They simply: pay; raise; repeat

This is what income looks like when people actually live on it — not when they’re trying to create noise online.

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It’s worth saying this clearly and calmly:

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Without a system, this list is just interesting reading. With a system, it becomes income-building material.

The MaxDividends Income System helps us:

  • identify businesses that can keep paying

  • avoid dividend illusions

  • stay disciplined when markets get loud

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  • real-time dividend hike alerts

  • tracking dividend streaks

  • monitoring income across countries and currencies

  • knowing exactly what is paying you today

Income doesn’t happen by accident. It’s built from the right decisions, repeated hundreds of times. This week is one more brick. Next week will be another.

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

This period brought another strong round of dividend increases across the United States and Japan, with companies spanning financials, technology, consulting, industrials, healthcare, consumer businesses, and transportation 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.

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