Eli Lilly Is Putting Dividend Growth Stocks to Shame With Yet Another Huge Increase to Its Payout

Dividend investors often prioritize stocks that have long track records for raising their payouts. But that can be a mistake. A long streak doesn't necessarily make a dividend stock a good long-term buy. After all, those increases may only be modest, for the sake of keeping the streak going. And if a company increases its dividend by just one or two percentage points, that's not even going to offset inflation.What Eli Lilly (LLY -0.05%) is doing is far more impressive. The company has been increasing its di ...