Below is a list of the 64 members of the S&P 500 that have increased their dividends for at least the last 25 years. Because of their long term dividend growth record, these are considered some of the best dividend stocks available to investors. I’ve have summaries on each of the companies’ dividend histories and you can go to there by clicking the hyperlinks.
In order to qualify as an S&P Dividend Aristocrat, a four things must be true of a company:
(1) It must be a member of the S&P 500 index,
(2) It must have increased its regular quarterly dividends for 25 consecutive years (Note: special dividend payments are not included),
(3) It must have a market capitalization of at least $3 billion (the market capitalization is defined as the number of outstanding shares multiplied by the share price), and
(4) It must have an average daily value traded of at least $5 million over the last 3 months (the daily value traded is defined by the number of shares traded on a given day multiplied by the average share price).
With very few exceptions, criteria (3) and (4) above will be met by a company being a member of the S&P 500 index.
If there’s information that you’d like to see about any of these companies, or there’s one that you are particularly interested in, please let me know by leaving a comment!
AMCOR plc
Archer Daniels Midland Company
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.
Cincinnati Financial Corporation
Expeditors International Of Washington
Federal Realty Investment Trust
Linde plc (Linde plc merged with Dividend Aristocrat Pentair in October 2018. S&P chose to include Linde plc in the list of S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats based on Pentair’s prior history as a Dividend Aristocrat.)
Stryker Corporation (Stryker Corporation meets the criteria to be an S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrat, but S&P has chosen to not include it in the index.)
United Technologies Corporation
You can review all these stocks at finviz.com here.
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