Retirees who grab a piece of the stock today can look forward to the likely special dividend coming down the pike as well as double-digit dividend growth as long as Costco's own growth continues. That kind of dividend growth track record is hard to beat.

Management has played coy about another special dividend, but the stock and the company are both thriving, so it would seem odd for management to break a now-established pattern.Įven without the special payout, Costco is a better dividend stock than it looks as it has raised its quarterly payout by 10% or more every year since it first began paying a dividend in 2004. And considering its shares currently trade at just over 11 times earnings, the price is right, too. Shell's dividend yield is currently an industry-leading 6.8%. Of course, if the dividend had been paltry, it would have been easy for Shell to continue to offer it, but that isn't the case here. That kind of reliability is deserving of a place in a retirement portfolio. Yet, even as its share price sank, Shell maintained its dividend.

The bad times for the company came between 20, during the big oil price downturn, when crude prices dropped from more than $100/barrel to less than $30/barrel before slowly creeping upwards. Luckily, oil major Royal Dutch Shell has shown that it's willing to maintain its dividend in good times and in bad. After all, that giant 10% yielder may look great at first, but if it suddenly slashes its dividend after only a few quarters, that's a sudden and painful drop in your income. John Bromels (Royal Dutch Shell): Perhaps the biggest consideration for retirees looking for dividend income isn't the size of the yield, but its reliability.

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