Last week I discussed some research Alex and I carried out to highlight the fundamental factors that lie behind strong long-term dividend growth.

We found – perhaps unsurprisingly – a considerable overlap with Stockopedia’s past multibagger research (which did not consider dividend payments).

In this follow-up piece, I’m going to take a look at some of the companies that topped our leaderboard of dividend winners and discuss why they have been – and may continue to be – successful investments.

Screening for dividend growth winners

Before that, I’d like to follow up a reader comment from last week, asking if we could provide a screen to help find similar stocks for the future.

For clarity, I should point out that our research last week was based on Alex’s number crunching of historic data drawn directly from Stockopedia’s database. It wasn’t done using screens.

However, what I’ve been able to do is to create a screen based on the fundamental factors highlighted in our findings.

I’d recommend checking back to last week’s piece for the background to my choices. As usual, I’ve kept the criteria relatively relaxed so as not to be too exclusive.

Here’s a snapshot of the rules I used to create the screen:

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Click here for my Dividend Growth Winners screen

Note: this is very much an example of how an investor might approach a screen of this kind. The results from the screen are absolutely not a prescriptive list of shares to buy. When targeting long-term compounders, screen results can only ever be a starting point for in-depth research.

The screen provides 24 results at the time of writing. Interestingly, this includes four shares from our 2014-24 top 30 winners, suggesting perhaps that these qualities can endure over very long periods.

Top dividend growth stocks 2014-24

Our conclusions were based on common fundamental factors we saw across the top 30 UK-listed dividend growth stocks between 2014 and 2024. These were companies that were listed throughout this period and paid dividends each year.

Over this 10-year period, our top 30 grew their dividends at compound average growth rates ranging from 16.8% per year to a whopping 49.4%.

Here they are:

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