{"id":590,"date":"2015-09-15T10:37:10","date_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tiingo.com\/?p=160"},"modified":"2015-09-15T10:37:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-15T15:37:10","slug":"screening-for-increasing-dividends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/screening-for-increasing-dividends\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening for Increasing Dividends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A user asked us\u00a0if we could\u00a0allow screening\u00a0for increasing dividends; but, we figured we&#8217;d do\u00a0one better. What if you could screen for the increases and decreases of\u00a0<em>any metric?\u00a0<\/em>Tiingo now allows this in 3 easy steps.<\/p>\n<h3>Step 1: Create a custom metric<\/h3>\n<p>To start, visit the custom metrics page here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/screen\/custom\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/screen\/custom<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Simply enter the metric you want in the &#8220;formula&#8221; box. In this example\u00a0we want to see if the dividend increases, so we type:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dividend_Cash&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/divcash_premetrictype.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/divcash_premetrictype.png\" alt=\"divcash_premetrictype\" width=\"902\" height=\"176\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But we want to see how many times the cash dividend\u00a0has increased, so we follow it up with a &#8220;.&#8221; and use our new metric &#8220;.countincr(#)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The # in this case represents the last # of dividends. Since most\u00a0dividend\u00a0stocks pay out quarterly, to see how many times the dividends increased in the past year, we would type in &#8220;4&#8221; for the #.<\/p>\n<p>Our final formula looks like:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/divcashformula-e1442331535295.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/divcashformula-e1442331535295.png\" alt=\"divcashformula\" width=\"939\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Step 2: Create the Screen<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Click &#8220;Create Metric&#8221; and visit the screening page here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/screen\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/screen\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s see how many stocks increased their dividends 2 times or more in the S&amp;P 500. To do that we simply drag-and-drop the metrics we care about and are left with:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/final-metrics.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-162\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/final-metrics.png\" alt=\"final metrics\" width=\"314\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Step 3: Run the Screen<\/h3>\n<p>Click &#8220;Run Screen&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We can see there were only 3 stocks that increased dividends 2 times in the last four payouts.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/results.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-163\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/results.png\" alt=\"results\" width=\"1215\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looking at Macy&#8217;s we can confirm this on:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/f\/g\/m\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/f\/g\/m<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macys-div-graph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-164\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macys-div-graph.png\" alt=\"macys div graph\" width=\"1371\" height=\"792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macys-div-graph.png 1371w, https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macys-div-graph-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macys-div-graph-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.tiingo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/macys-div-graph-768x444.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1371px) 100vw, 1371px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Want to take it further?<\/p>\n<p>Replace <strong>&#8220;Dividend_Cash&#8221;<\/strong> with <strong>any metric<\/strong> in our database. Or, replace <strong>.countincr<\/strong> with <strong>.countdecr<\/strong> and count the number of decreases!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy! If you have any feedback, reach out to us at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:feedback@tiingo.com\" target=\"_blank\">feedback@tiingo.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A user asked us\u00a0if we could\u00a0allow screening\u00a0for increasing dividends; but, we figured we&#8217;d do\u00a0one better. What if you could screen for the increases and decreases of\u00a0any metric?\u00a0Tiingo now allows this in 3 easy steps. 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