Cardinal Health is about to announce its dividend offering, which should make for 25 years of consecutive dividend growth. This soon-to-be Dividend Champion has many pluses and minuses as far as adding it to your portfolio is concerned.

It would be understandable to question why an article about minimizing taxes on dividend stocks would appear following the submission of one's tax forms.  The answer is that one needs to plan what they are doing during the tax year before the next form comes due.  Hopefully, this article will help with that planning process.

The past two articles examined companies that had been removed from the Dividend Champions list due to dividend cuts. This final article considers whether one should have continued to hold onto those companies, or sell them and place the money into an S&P 500 index fund.