Q4 2022 Dividend Growth Update

At Reaves, we believe one signal of a company’s strength and the durability of its future earnings is the pace of dividend growth. Each quarter, we post the annual rate of change in the quarterly dividend payment for each stock held in the portfolios managed with our Long Term Value Strategy1.

Despite a challenging macroeconomic backdrop, we were pleased to see that the majority of companies owned as of 12/31/22 increased their dividends from the year ago levels. The weighted average dividend increase was 6.8%.

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The dividend growth exhibited by these companies, we believe, illustrates the strategy's potential to compound earnings and dividends in the future. Please don’t hesitate to contact us with any questions about this data or our Long Term Value investment strategy.


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1Beginning December 2019, Reaves LTV Strategy is represented by the LTV SMA Wrap Composite. This composite contains those LTV discretionary portfolios with wrap (bundled) fees. Wrap accounts are charged a bundled fee which includes the wrap sponsor fee as well as Reaves’ investment advisory fee. Due to compliance requirements, the net-of-fees calculation is computed based on the highest annual fee assigned by any wrap sponsor who utilizes this portfolio in an investment wrap program (300 basis points from 1/1/03 through 12/31/16 and, effective 1/1/2017, 250 basis points). The LTV SMA Wrap Composite performance consists of money-weighted, time-weighted returns and it includes the reinvestment of all dividends and other earnings. The inception date of the composite is December 2002; however, the composite was created in January 2013. This composite has been managed in a similar manner to the LTV ERISA Composite which ended in December of 2019. The LTV SMA Wrap Composite does not represent all of Reaves’ assets under management.

2The MSCI USA Infrastructure Index captures the opportunity set of U.S. companies that are owners or operators of infrastructure assets. Constituents are selected from the equity universe of the MSCI USA Index, the parent index, which covers large and mid-cap securities in the U.S. All index constituents are categorized in one of thirteen sub-industries, which MSCI aggregates and groups into five infrastructure sectors: Telecommunications, Utilities, Energy, Transportation and Social. Reaves’ portfolios may at times be more diversified by including companies classified as operating in the Real Estate and industrials sectors.

The MSCI USA Infrastructure Index was launched on Jan 22, 2008. Data prior to the launch date is back-tested data (i.e., calculations of how the index might have performed over that time period had the index existed). There are frequently material differences between back-tested performance and actual results. Past performance -- whether actual or back-tested -- is no indication or guarantee of future performance.

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