Updating your Income-Growth Payers: Genuine Parts

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GENUINE PARTS CO. $171 is a buy. The company (New York symbol GPC; Income-Growth Payer Portfolio, Manufacturing & Industry sector; Shares outstanding: 143.2 million; Market cap: $24.5 billion; Dividend yield: 2.1%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.genpt.com) is a leading seller of replacement auto parts. It also distributes industrial parts such as bearings, seals, pumps and hoses. With the April 2022 payment, Genuine raised your quarterly dividend by 9.8%, to $0.895 a share from $0.815. The new annual rate of $3.58 yields 2.1%. Investors have now enjoyed an annual dividend increase for 66 consecutive years. In January 2022, Genuine paid $1.3 billion for Kaman Distribution Group, which distributes a range of automation and industrial components to over 50,000 customers in the U.S. Kaman should add $1.1 billion to Genuine’s annual revenue. Thanks to the new operations, Genuine’s sales in the three months ended September 30, 2022, rose 17.8%, to $5.68 billion from $4.82 billion a year earlier. If you factor out acquisitions, sales still improved 12.7%. Earnings…