Dividend Radar alternative

A modern replacement path for CCC-style dividend growth research

The Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers lists, collectively known as the CCC lists, categorize dividend-paying stocks by their consecutive years of dividend increases. The classic framework was originally created by David Fish and later evolved into Dividend Radar, a weekly-updated research list powered by automated financial scoring tools.

KiwiDiv is designed for investors looking for a practical alternative after Dividend Radar and Portfolio Insight became unavailable. It keeps the CCC-style dividend growth lens familiar while adding a cleaner research universe, shortlist layers, and a more selective workflow for income-focused review.

Dividend Radar: the origin story

From David Fish's CCC List to a trusted dividend-growth framework

In the early 2000s, the late David Fish, an independent analyst and dividend-growth pioneer, created what became known as the Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers List, or CCC List.

The idea was simple but powerful: group companies by how many years in a row they had raised their dividends. Over time, this evolved into Dividend Radar, a weekly update trusted by thousands of income investors.

For more than two decades, dividend investors across the world followed one proven framework built around the timeless CCC method: Champions, Contenders, and Challengers. It was not just a list. It was a reputation. To be included meant a company had achieved something only durable businesses can sustain: raising its dividend every single year, without fail.

The Dave Fish dividend strategy

A simple philosophy that modern tools can track

Dave Fish, creator of the famous CCC list, never claimed to have a complex investing system. His approach was remarkably simple: buy high-quality companies with long histories of dividend growth, hold them while the dividend keeps growing and the business remains strong, and sell only when the original investment thesis breaks.

Modern dividend tools, including MaxDividends-style metrics and KiwiDiv's own research layers, help investors track that philosophy with clearer data, quality checks, balance-sheet context, and shortlist discipline.

What KiwiDiv adds

From dividend growth lists to cleaner shortlist discipline

CCC-style lists are a useful starting point, but they are still broad research universes. KiwiDiv helps organize that starting universe into clearer review layers, so investors can move from broad coverage to a smaller set of dividend candidates worth deeper attention.

The free Research Universe keeps broad dividend research accessible. Basic adds the KiwiDiv Shortlist, and Pro adds stock buy/sell recommendations inside the site.