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Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research is looking for S&P 500 dividends to reach $525 billion next year. That would be up 6% from this year’s forecast of $495 billion “as the pace of earnings growth decelerates,” Goldman noted in a research report–compared with 4% last year and 5% in 2016.

The firm predicts that this year’s dividends will climb by 9% year over year. Similarly, Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Dow Jones Indices, is looking for an increase of about 6% in 2019 for S&P 500 dividends–down from what he expects will be 9.6% this year. “We are well into a recovery and companies are increasing dividends a lot more this year,” says Silverblatt, citing the corporate tax cuts that took effect early this year as a key factor.

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Trending Up Dividend hikes by large U.S. Firms should continue in 2019. *Year over year; E=Estimate Source: Goldman Sachs Even though dividend growth is likely to decelerate next year, it could be a better environment for income-generating stocks. Dividend stocks have come under pressure as interest rates have climbed from extremely low levels. More recently, though, some sectors known for dividends have performed better. The utilities in the S&P 500, for example, have returned about 7% this year, compared with a minus 1.4% result for the broader market.

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Aaron Clark, a portfolio manager at GW&K Investment Management, contends that these stocks will be helped slower earnings growth in the overall market, his expectation that the Federal Reserve will slow, if not finish, its rate-tightening program, and no major signs of upward inflation pressure. “The backdrop will be more accommodating for more traditional dividend stocks,” predicts Clark.

His holdings include (KMI), which operates oil and gas pipelines and terminals. The company slashed its quarterly dividend in early 2016 when the energy business slumped, and increased the dividend earlier this year by 60%. Kinder Morgan has said it plans to boost that dividend by 25% next year and in 2020. The stock yields 5%. Another of Clark’s positions is (UNH), a health insurer. It only yields 1.3%, well below the S&P 500’s average of about 2%, but it should be able to grow that in the mid-teens annually for several years, he says.

Clark maintains the company is “by far the best positioned to capitalize on the changing landscape in health care, which is more about having data and analytics.” Looking ahead, Goldman Sachs expects financial firms in the S&P 500 to grow their dividends by 16% on a per-share basis next year, more than in any other sector, followed by technology stocks at 12% per share and health care at 9% per share. It predicts that “the largest U.S. Banks will drive much of the increase by paying 27% more in dividends during the 2018 Comprehensive Capital Analyst and Review (CCAR) year, which runs from this year’s third quarter through the end of the second quarter in 2019, versus the previous CCAR cycle. Meanwhile, the payout ratio, which measures the percentage of earnings paid out as dividends–has declined slightly in recent years but remains in the high-30s percentage. But Goldman expects that ratio will “continue to grind lower as dividend growth lags growth in adjusted earnings.” From 2017 through 2027, the firm expects dividends to increase at a compound annual rate of 4.2%.

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That would be lower than the increases investors are typically seeing today, but it wouldn’t be shabby either – especially if interest rates level out. Write to Lawrence C.

S&P 500 Companies by Weight The S&P 500 component weights are listed from largest to smallest. Data for each company in the list is updated after each trading day. The S&P 500 index consists of most but not all of the largest companies in the United States. The S&P market cap is 70 to 80% of the total US stock market capitalization. It is a commonly used benchmark for stock portfolio performance in America and abroad. Beating the performance of the S&P with less risk is the goal of nearly every portfolio manager, hedge fund and private investor.