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This Week’s Dividend Growth Standouts

America’s Fastest-Rising Dividends

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MaxDividends
Feb 17, 2026
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MaxDividends Mission: Helping people build growing passive income, retire early, and live off dividends.

🦅 Top Dividend Growth Focused Eagles of the Week

Each week we spotlight companies accelerating their dividend growth — reliable names built to push your passive income higher, faster, year after year.

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Intro

This series is about dividend growth first. Here we focus on companies where dividend income is already meaningful today - but the real story is how fast that income can grow over time.

These are businesses with the financial strength, earnings momentum, and capital discipline to raise dividends aggressively and consistently. Income grows first. Capital follows.

This is the part of the portfolio designed to accelerate future cash flow — so your dividend income doesn’t just grow… it compounds at speed.

The Role of This Series Inside the MaxDividends

The job of Top Dividend Growth Stocks of the Week is clear and very specific: to identify companies capable of delivering rapid, durable, long-term dividend growth — without sacrificing quality or valuation discipline.

This is not our high-yield engine. And it’s not our capital-first growth engine. This is the dividend acceleration engine.

These companies may not always have the highest yield today — but they share one defining trait: their earnings power expands fast enough — and cleanly enough — that dividend income scales aggressively year after year.

The goal is simple: build a stream of income that grows so fast over time that it materially changes your financial trajectory.

How We Select Top Dividend Growth Eagles

Every company in this series is selected through the MaxDividends Income System.

The MaxDividends Income System is our filter, rulebook, logic, and decision-making checklist — the framework that determines what belongs in a long-term compounding portfolio and what doesn’t.

For Dividend Growth Eagles, the System is applied with a clear priority: dividend growth strength first, supported by financial quality and valuation discipline.

We run each candidate through the MaxDividends Income System, which for this series includes the following core criteria:

5 Pillars Formula

Financial Score 90+. Strong balance sheet, durable margins, clean cash flows, and consistent execution across cycles. A foundational quality check covering business durability, competitive position, capital allocation discipline, and long-term compounding ability.

Dividend Growth Power

15+ years of consistent dividend increases preferred — with special emphasis on 5–10 year growth rate strength and payout sustainability. We look for businesses that can continue raising dividends at an above-average pace.

MaxRatio Level → Income Eagles / Balanced Eagles Zone

A profile that reflects capital efficiency, reinvestment quality, and dividend scalability. These are companies built to compound both earnings and payouts.

Market Valuation

Only fairly valued or undervalued companies qualify. Fast dividend growth loses its advantage if you overpay.

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The MaxDividends App supports this process as our central data hub and navigator.

It stores the full history behind every decision — fundamentals, dividend timelines, valuation ranges, portfolio structure — and lets us track where we are, how far we’ve come, and whether we’re still aligned with the System.

This week’s Top Dividend Growth list highlights businesses with strong earnings engines, disciplined payout policies, rising cash flows, and the capacity to significantly increase dividend income over the coming years.

☕️ Pour your coffee, tune out the noise, and lean into the process — the best dividend growth opportunities rarely look dramatic at first. They simply raise payouts… again and again… and again.

👉 Here’s what made this week’s Dividend Growth radar.

Weekly Watchlist – This Week’s Top 10 Dividend Growth Stocks

10 Dividend Growth Stocks in Focus


📌 Today’s Table of Contents

Your Essential Dividend Investing Guide

  • This Week’s Highlights — a quick warm-up with 3 dividend growers showing the MaxDividends spirit and accelerating payout power

  • Top 10 USA Dividend Growth Stocks of the Week — full portfolio + commentary on this week’s fastest-growing dividend names

  • Top 3 International Dividend Growth Picks — global gems fueling the worldwide wave of dividend acceleration

  • My Weekly Moves — what I’m buying, adding, or holding as the income snowball speeds up

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