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Dividend aristocrats: 25 years or more of increases

Raising the dividend one year is easy. Raising it twenty-five years running — through 2008, the pandemic and a couple of recessions along the way — takes a business that generates growing cash and a management team disciplined enough not to spend it. That's the idea behind “dividend aristocrats”: the streak isn't the prize, it's the proof.

The table includes payout and debt on purpose. A long streak sustained by paying out nearly all earnings, or by borrowing to fund it, has an expiry date. Read them together — don't stop at the number of years.

One caveat about the list: the SEC's structured data only goes back to 2008, so for the longest streaks we lean on public dividend histories that we review by hand. We only include companies whose streak we can verify, which means this list errs on the short side rather than inventing a figure.

Filter criteria: 25 or more consecutive years raising the dividend per share. Only streaks we can verify are included (see the note at the end).

41 companies meet the criteria

CompanyScoreYears raisingDividend/sharePayoutDebt/EBITDA
DoverDOV7571$2,0725,9%0,88×
Parker HannifinPH8570$6,6924,4%1,23×
Procter & GamblePG7870$4,0861,8%1,06×
Genuine PartsGPC2670$4,12855%4,98×
Emerson ElectricEMR6669$1,3452%2,53×
Cincinnati FinancialCINF8765$3,4821,9%
Coca-ColaKO8364$2,0467%1,84×
Johnson & JohnsonJNJ8164$5,140,84×
Colgate-PalmoliveCL6663$2,082,01×
Stanley Black & DeckerSWK3359$3,3124,6%3,58×
AltriaMO7557$4,16100,2%1,86×
SyscoSYY6857$2,0754,7%2,88×
Illinois Tool WorksITW7956$6,2258,2%1,81×
W.W. GraingerGWW8055$8,8327,4%0,58×
PPG IndustriesPPG6855$2,7839,8%1,72×
TargetTGT5655$4,5455,4%1,35×
PepsiCoPEP6854$5,6292,7%1,83×
Abbott LaboratoriesABT6754$2,463,1%2,97×
Kimberly-ClarkKMB6254$5,0482,1%2,01×
Lowe'sLOW5854$4,7539,6%2,9×
Becton DickinsonBDX5854$4,1671,3%3,33×
AbbVieABBV4954$6,65275,8%3,45×
S&P GlobalSPGI8453$3,8426,2%1,42×
NucorNUE7153$2,2129,4%
WalmartWMT6553$1,5934,3%0,67×
Consolidated EdisonED5353$3,3257,6%4,83×
Archer-Daniels-MidlandADM4053$2,0491,6%2,28×
ADPADP8551$6,0258,8%0,11×
McDonald'sMCD8051$7,1759,7%3,01×
Air ProductsAPD5451$7,114,35×
MedtronicMDT6548$2,8475,8%2,76×
Sherwin-WilliamsSHW6847$3,1630,7%2,72×
CintasCTAS8343$1,5633,7%0,81×
Exxon MobilXOM6643$459,7%0,61×
CaterpillarCAT8433$5,9430,9%2,3×
EcolabECL7533$2,6836,3%2,28×
Realty IncomeO8532$3,22275,9%-0,1×
LindeLIN8332$640,8%1,72×
Roper TechnologiesROP6932$3,3923,1%3,17×
IBMIBM7330$6,7159%3,75×
Church & DwightCHD6929$1,1839%1,29×

TTM metrics with official SEC data, refreshed daily. The score is fundamental quality (price not included). This list sorts by the filter's metric — it is not a buy recommendation.

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