Updating your Cyclical-Growth Payers: Chevron Corp.

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CHEVRON CORP. $104 remains a buy. The leading integrated oil and gas producer (New York symbol CVX; Cyclical-Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Resources sector; Shares outstanding: 1.9 billion; Market cap: $197.6 billion; Dividend yield: 5.2%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.chevron.com) will raise its quarterly dividend by 3.9% with the June 2021 payment. Investors will then receive $1.34 a share instead of $1.29. The new annual rate of $5.36 yields a high 5.2%. Chevron has now increased its annual dividend each year for the past 34 years. Chevron completed its $4.1 billion all-stock purchase of Noble Energy in October 2020. Based in Texas, Noble produces oil and natural gas at properties in the U.S., Israel and Equatorial Guinea. It also has a 25% working interest in more than two million gross acres in the Orphan Basin off the coast of Newfoundland with multi-billion barrel potential. The company now expects the elimination of overlapping operations with Noble will save it $600 million…