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Standard & Poor’s keeps and index of “Dividend Aristocrats.” These are stocks that have raised their dividend for 25 straight years. Here’s the current list:

Abbott Labs
Archer-Daniels-Midland
Automatic Data Processing Inc.
AmSouth Bancorporation
ALLTEL Corp.
Avery Dennison Corp.
Bank of America Corp.
Bard (C.R.) Inc.
Becton, Dickinson
Anheuser-Busch
ConAgra Foods, Inc.
Chubb Corp.
Clorox Co.
Comerica Inc.
Century Telephone
Dover Corp.
Consolidated Edison
Emerson Electric
Family Dollar Stores
First Horizon National
Gannett Co.
General Electric
Grainger (W.W.) Inc.
Johnson Controls
Johnson & Johnson
Jefferson-Pilot
KeyCorp
Kimberly-Clark
Coca Cola Co.
Leggett & Platt
Lilly (Eli) & Co.
Lowe's Cos.
May Dept. Stores
McDonald's Corp.
McGraw-Hill
3M Company
Altria Group, Inc.
Merck & Co.
Nucor Corp.
PepsiCo Inc.
Pfizer, Inc.
Procter & Gamble
Progressive Corp.
PPG Industries
Regions Financial Corp.
Rohm & Haas
Donnelley (R.R.) & Sons
Sherwin-Williams
Sigma-Aldrich
State Street Corp.
Supervalu Inc.
Stanley Works
Target Corp.
U.S. Bancorp
V.F. Corp.
Walgreen Co.
Wal-Mart Stores

The Aristocrats have outperformed the S&P by over 2% a year for the past 15 years. There’s also a list of European Aristocrats. These stocks have raised their dividends for 10 straight years.

Atlas Copco AB - A Shares
Barclays
Capita Group
Cobham
Daily Mail & General Trust 'A'
FirstGroup
Legal & General Group
Misys
Morrison Supermarkets
Novartis AG
Orkla ASA
Rentokil Initial
Roche Holding AG
Roche Holding AG - Bearer Share
Royal Bank of Scotland Group
SCA - Svenska Cellulosa AB - B Shares
Scottish & Southern Energy
Svenska Handelsbanken AB - A Shares
WPP Group

Posted by edelfenbein at August 23, 2005 5:44 PM