Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) is one of the world’s leading agribusiness companies, with significant market presence in agriculture processing and merchandising. ADM has approximately 230 plants located worldwide. It is one of the world’s largest processors of agricultural commodity products such as oilseeds, corn, wheat, protein meal, corn sweeteners, flour, biodiesel, ethanol, and other food and feed ingredients.
ADM is a dividend aristocrat and has been raising its dividends for last 34 years. The last dividend increase was in February 2009. I last reviewed ADM in July 2009. My objective here is to see if ADM continues to be a good dividend growth stock and how does it rate on my scale of risk-to-dividends.
Trend Analysis
Here I am looking at trends for past 10 years of corporation’s revenue and profitability. These parameters should show consistently growth trends. The trend charts is shown in image below. continue reading rest of the article….
LOWE’s Company (LOW) is a home improvement retailer. It focuses on retail do-it-yourself (DIY) customers and do-it-for-me (DIFM) customers who utilize LOW’s installation services, and commercial business customers. Its product lines include products and services for home decorating, maintenance, repair, remodeling, and the maintenance of commercial buildings. It has approximately 1650 retail stores in US and Canada. 
Brown & Brown, Inc. (BRO) and its subsidiaries, provides insurance and reinsurance products and services, as well as risk management, employee benefit administration and managed health care services. It is a diversified insurance agency and brokerage firm, markets and sells to its customer’s insurance products and services, primarily in the property and casualty area. BRO has operations in 219 locations and in 37 states.
Kimberly-Clark is a global health and hygiene company with operations in 37 countries. It’s products are sold in more than 150 countries. It has a well-known family care and personal care brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Andrex, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, Poise, and Depend. 
Waste Management Inc. (WM) provides integrated waste management services in North America. The company is engaged in collection, transfer, recycling, disposal, and waste-to-energy services. WM is neither a dividend aristocrat nor a dividend achiever. In fact, WM has started showing some dividend growth trends in last five years. While I am presenting and showing data from last 10 years, I am only using last five years of dividend data. My objective here is to understand if WM has any potential to be a dividend achiever.
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