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Here’s a sortable table of the 2017 performance and year-end yield of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats components. You can sort on a given column by clicking on the column header:
| Company Name | Stock Ticker | Dividend Yield on January 1, 2018 | 2017 Performance |
|---|---|---|---|
| AbbVie Inc. | ABBV | 2.94% | 54.44% |
| Abbott Laboratories | ABT | 1.96% | 48.58% |
| Archer-Daniels-Midland Company | ADM | 3.19% | -12.20% |
| Automatic Data Processing, Inc. | ADP | 2.15% | 14.02% |
| Aflac Incorporated | AFL | 2.05% | 26.12% |
| A. O. Smith Corporation | AOS | 0.91% | 29.42% |
| Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. | APD | 2.32% | 14.09% |
| Becton, Dickinson and Company | BDX | 1.40% | 29.30% |
| Franklin Resources, Inc. | BEN | 2.12% | 9.47% |
| Brown-Forman Corporation | BF-B | 1.15% | 52.87% |
| Cardinal Health, Inc. | CAH | 3.02% | -14.87% |
| Cincinnati Financial Corporation | CINF | 2.67% | -0.36% |
| Colgate-Palmolive Company | CL | 2.12% | 15.30% |
| The Clorox Company | CLX | 2.26% | 23.93% |
| Cintas Corporation | CTAS | 1.04% | 34.85% |
| Chevron Corporation | CVX | 3.45% | 6.36% |
| Dover Corporation | DOV | 1.86% | 34.78% |
| Ecolab Inc. | ECL | 1.22% | 14.47% |
| Consolidated Edison, Inc. | ED | 3.25% | 15.30% |
| Emerson Electric Co. | EMR | 2.78% | 25.00% |
| General Dynamics Corporation | GD | 1.65% | 17.83% |
| Genuine Parts Company | GPC | 2.84% | -0.55% |
| W.W. Grainger, Inc. | GWW | 2.17% | 1.72% |
| Hormel Foods Corporation | HRL | 2.06% | 4.54% |
| Illinois Tool Works Inc. | ITW | 1.87% | 36.25% |
| Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | 2.40% | 21.27% |
| Kimberly-Clark Corporation | KMB | 3.22% | 5.73% |
| The Coca-Cola Company | KO | 3.23% | 10.66% |
| Leggett & Platt, Incorporated | LEG | 3.02% | -2.35% |
| Lowe's Companies, Inc. | LOW | 1.76% | 30.68% |
| McDonald's Corporation | MCD | 2.35% | 41.41% |
| Medtronic plc | MDT | 2.28% | 13.37% |
| McCormick & Company, Incorporated | MKC | 2.04% | 9.19% |
| 3M Company | MMM | 2.00% | 31.81% |
| Nucor Corporation | NUE | 2.39% | 6.82% |
| People's United Financial, Inc. | PBCT | 3.69% | -3.41% |
| Pepsico, Inc. | PEP | 2.69% | 14.61% |
| The Procter & Gamble Company | PG | 3.00% | 9.28% |
| Pentair plc | PNR | 1.98% | 25.95% |
| PPG Industries, Inc. | PPG | 1.54% | 23.28% |
| Praxair, Inc. | PX | 2.04% | 31.99% |
| The Sherwin-Williams Company | SHW | 0.83% | 52.58% |
| SPDR S&P 500 ETF | SPY | 1.87% | 19.38% |
| Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. | SWK | 1.49% | 47.96% |
| Stryker Corporation | SYK | 1.21% | 29.24% |
| Sysco Corporation | SYY | 2.37% | 9.68% |
| AT&T Inc. | T | 5.14% | -8.58% |
| Target Corporation | TGT | 3.80% | -9.66% |
| T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. | TROW | 2.17% | 39.42% |
| V.F. Corporation | VFC | 2.49% | 38.71% |
| Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. | WBA | 2.20% | -12.25% |
| Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. | WMT | 2.07% | 42.87% |
| Exxon Mobil Corporation | XOM | 3.68% | -7.33% |