One way to identify Dividend growth stocks is to look for dividend increases. Companies that pay rising dividends are likely to be financially healthy and generate consistent cash flow. I am interested in stocks with at least ten consecutive years of increasing annual regular dividend payments. Here is a list of such companies that increased their dividends last week.

Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP), +17.857% dividend increase

Roper Technologies, Inc. is a technology company. The Company operates businesses that design and develop software and engineered products and solutions for various end markets, including healthcare, transportation, commercial construction, food, energy...

Roper Technologies has declared quarterly dividend of $0.412 (+17.857% increase). It goes ex-dividend on Jan-08-2018 and is payable on Jan-23-2018. Annualized dividend is $1.65 at a yield of 0.639%. Roper Technologies has a dividend growth rate of 34.30% (3 Year Average) and has 18 Years of Consecutive Dividend Growth.

Roper Technologies has a twelve month trailing (TTM) earnings per share (EPS) of $6.88, which gives it a dividend payout ratio of 19.40%. The predicted earnings per share for 2018 is $10.11. Free cash flow (FCF) is $5.92. Using FCF we can compute the dividend payout ratio as 23.649%. Roper Technologies has a P/E ratio of 37.72. Analyst consensus target price is $277.09.