Growing Dividends to Energize Your Portfolio

Investors have plenty of important information to cull as we dive headlong into a barrage of fourth-quarter earnings announcements for American energy companies -- not the least of which are dividend and distribution increases. Some energy companies only increase their dividend once a year, while others may give it a gentle boost of 1% to 2% every quarter. The three companies we're looking at today, however, all boosted their dividends by 4% or more on a sequential basis, and they are today's three candidates for your portfolio's next yield engine.

Targa Resources is the general partner of Targa Resources Partners (NYSE: NGLS), the master limited partnership that owns and operates all the assets in the Targa family. Tallgrass Energy Partners LP (NYSE: TEP) only went public last year, but it has wasted very little time ratcheting up its distribution. Hi-Crush Partners LP (NYSE: HCLP) is in the frac sand game, making it a crucial component of America's energy renaissance.

Source: Motley Fool

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