Genuine Parts and McCormick sold off on weak earnings and guidance, but Miller/Howard continues "to place more credence in management's guidance through dividend increases than in the vacillating opinions of analysts and their penny-up-penny-down mentality."

Genuine Parts and McCormick sold off on weak earnings and guidance, but Miller/Howard continues "to place more credence in management's guidance through dividend increases than in the vacillating opinions of analysts and their penny-up-penny-down mentality."

Miller/Howard said that for most of the first quarter, its returns in this portfolio "were far less negative than the broader market." A few of its other picks: CMS Energy (CMS), Northeast Utilities (NU), Abbott Labs (ABT), Genuine Parts (CPC), McCormick (MKC), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Thomson Reuters (TRI) and American Water Works (AWK). As for the kinds of stocks it favors, the firm says, "We continue to believe that companies with a recurring business model, financial strength, protected and durable markets, and a continuing partnership with investors in the form of dividends are the right place to be in a world where certainty and visibility are, broadly speaking, as low as we can remember." And it adds, "When a company raises dividends today, in an environment where there is so little competitive or peer pressure to raise, we think it speaks volumes about the company's true situation, its true prospects, its true view of shareholders, and the decisiveness and boldness of management."

Miller/Howard said that for most of the first quarter, its returns in this portfolio "were far less negative than the broader market." A few of its other picks: CMS Energy (CMS), Northeast Utilities (NU), Abbott Labs (ABT), Genuine Parts (CPC), McCormick (MKC), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Thomson Reuters (TRI) and American Water Works (AWK). As for the kinds of stocks it favors, the firm says, "We continue to believe that companies with a recurring business model, financial strength, protected and durable markets, and a continuing partnership with investors in the form of dividends are the right place to be in a world where certainty and visibility are, broadly speaking, as low as we can remember." And it adds, "When a company raises dividends today, in an environment where there is so little competitive or peer pressure to raise, we think it speaks volumes about the company's true situation, its true prospects, its true view of shareholders, and the decisiveness and boldness of management."

Miller/Howard said that for most of the first quarter, its returns in this portfolio "were far less negative than the broader market." A few of its other picks: CMS Energy (CMS), Northeast Utilities (NU), Abbott Labs (ABT), Genuine Parts (CPC), McCormick (MKC), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Thomson Reuters (TRI) and American Water Works (AWK). As for the kinds of stocks it favors, the firm says, "We continue to believe that companies with a recurring business model, financial strength, protected and durable markets, and a continuing partnership with investors in the form of dividends are the right place to be in a world where certainty and visibility are, broadly speaking, as low as we can remember." And it adds, "When a company raises dividends today, in an environment where there is so little competitive or peer pressure to raise, we think it speaks volumes about the company's true situation, its true prospects, its true view of shareholders, and the decisiveness and boldness of management."

Miller/Howard said that for most of the first quarter, its returns in this portfolio "were far less negative than the broader market." A few of its other picks: CMS Energy (CMS), Northeast Utilities (NU), Abbott Labs (ABT), Genuine Parts (CPC), McCormick (MKC), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Thomson Reuters (TRI) and American Water Works (AWK). As for the kinds of stocks it favors, the firm says, "We continue to believe that companies with a recurring business model, financial strength, protected and durable markets, and a continuing partnership with investors in the form of dividends are the right place to be in a world where certainty and visibility are, broadly speaking, as low as we can remember." And it adds, "When a company raises dividends today, in an environment where there is so little competitive or peer pressure to raise, we think it speaks volumes about the company's true situation, its true prospects, its true view of shareholders, and the decisiveness and boldness of management."

Miller/Howard said that for most of the first quarter, its returns in this portfolio "were far less negative than the broader market." A few of its other picks: CMS Energy (CMS), Northeast Utilities (NU), Abbott Labs (ABT), Genuine Parts (CPC), McCormick (MKC), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Thomson Reuters (TRI) and American Water Works (AWK). As for the kinds of stocks it favors, the firm says, "We continue to believe that companies with a recurring business model, financial strength, protected and durable markets, and a continuing partnership with investors in the form of dividends are the right place to be in a world where certainty and visibility are, broadly speaking, as low as we can remember." And it adds, "When a company raises dividends today, in an environment where there is so little competitive or peer pressure to raise, we think it speaks volumes about the company's true situation, its true prospects, its true view of shareholders, and the decisiveness and boldness of management."

Miller/Howard said that for most of the first quarter, its returns in this portfolio "were far less negative than the broader market." A few of its other picks: CMS Energy (CMS), Northeast Utilities (NU), Abbott Labs (ABT), Genuine Parts (CPC), McCormick (MKC), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Thomson Reuters (TRI) and American Water Works (AWK). As for the kinds of stocks it favors, the firm says, "We continue to believe that companies with a recurring business model, financial strength, protected and durable markets, and a continuing partnership with investors in the form of dividends are the right place to be in a world where certainty and visibility are, broadly speaking, as low as we can remember." And it adds, "When a company raises dividends today, in an environment where there is so little competitive or peer pressure to raise, we think it speaks volumes about the company's true situation, its true prospects, its true view of shareholders, and the decisiveness and boldness of management."