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Dividend.com traffic shows investors concentrating most on Hormel Foods, which led last week’s page-view rankings with a 63.4% surge as the consumer staples company’s shares approached a 52-week low and an April ex-dividend date amplified income-investor attention following a JPMorgan downgrade. Ford Motor Company followed at 47.9%, reflecting a White House denial of aluminum tariff relief, and mounting scrutiny over whether the supplemental dividend will return ahead of April 29 earnings. Johnson and Johnson placed third after a 34.3% uptick, reflecting a first-quarter earnings beat, a raised full-year guidance range, and the company’s 64th consecutive annual dividend increase announced on April 14. Energy Transfer’s 28.6% gain rounded out the list, reflecting a growing artificial intelligence data-center gas-supply pipeline, a distribution yield near 7.0%, and heightened midstream interest driven by an oil-price spike tied to Middle East tensions.
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