Cadbury Plc (CBY), a UK-based Company, is world’s leading confectionery company. In year 2008, it divested its beverage business into separate entity. Now Cadbury Plc is solely a confectionery company. It offers chocolate, gum/mints, and candy products under various brand names, including Bubbaloo, Cadbury Creme Egg, Cadbury Dairy Milk, Clorets, Dentyne, Eclairs, Flake, Green & Blacks, Halls, Hollywood, Stimorol. It operates in 60 countries.

CBY is an international dividend achiever has been raising its dividends for last 11 years. The most recent dividend increase was in February 2009. CDY can play a role of international equity in a dividend portfolio. It can also be viewed as a hedge for dollar and emerging markets (20% revenue from emerging markets). My objective here is to analyze if CDY still continues to be a good dividend growth stock and how does it rate on my scale of risk-to-dividends. continue reading rest of the article….