Travel Is Cheap: Where to Go, What to Expect
<strong>Ryan Ermey</strong>: Travel is cheap right now. But what's it actually going to look like in the coming months? Kiplinger staff writer Emma Patch joins the show to talk trains, planes, RVs and more in our main segment. On today's show, I break down changes to the list of our favorite dividend stocks. And a new edition of Deal or no Deal covers credit cards and "get rich quick" YouTube ads. That's all ahead on this episode of Your Money's Worth. Stick around.
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<strong>Ryan Ermey</strong>: Welcome to Your Money's Worth. I'm Kiplinger's associate editor Ryan Ermey, joined as always by senior editor Sandy Block. And, Sandy, when was the last time that you had McDonald's?
<strong>Sandy Block</strong>: Not that long ago actually, because I've been on the road a lot this summer for family reasons. And if I need some coffee... although, I did bail out of the drive-thru line one time. All I wanted was a cup of coffee and it took so long. I decided it's just not worth it. And I left, which tells you something about the kind of business that McDonald's is doing these days.
<strong>Ryan Ermey</strong>: Well, certainly a lot of drive-thru, curbside pickup. We'll get to that in a second. I will say that road trips, airports, none of those calories actually count. You can eat whatever you want when you're in transit. I did a little bit of a weekend trip. And I think we got Popeye's on the way down and Wendy's on the way back.
<strong>Sandy Block</strong>: Ooh, Popeye's. All right. All right.
<strong>Ryan Ermey</strong>: It was a successful trip. And I bring up McDonald's, because it's the newest addition to the Kiplinger Dividend 15. So a quick overview of what that is: It's a list of our favorite dividend paying stocks that we separate into three baskets. And before I get into the three baskets, I should mention it's a list that I maintain, Sandy.
<strong>Sandy Block</strong>: Okay, it's your list.
<strong>Ryan Ermey</strong>: And update every quarter. Now I inherited this list, so don't come after me if you don't like all of these. But the three baskets that we separate them into -- one of them is dividend stalwarts -- these are companies that have raised dividends for at least 20 consecutive years. Those include <strong>3M</strong> (), <strong>Air Products & Chemicals</strong> (), <strong>Emerson Electric</strong> (), <strong>Johnson & Johnson</strong> (), <strong>Proctor & Gamble</strong> () and <strong>Walmart</strong> () -- so a lot of household names there. The next is dividend growth. These are companies that we expect to continue a history of robust dividend increases. These include <strong>Abbvie</strong> (), <strong>Home Depot</strong> (), <strong>Lockheed Martin</strong> (), <strong>Texas Instruments</strong> (). And then we have), <strong>Enterprise Products Partners</strong> (), <strong>Realty Income</strong> () and <strong>Verizon Communications</strong> (). So if you are keeping count there, Sandy, that was actually only 14.
