Dividend Champs on the Buy List

I don’t purposely seek out Dividend Aristocrats for the Buy List (meaning stocks that have raised their dividends for more than 25 years in a row), but we tend to have a few. Rather, I think it’s because we focus on the qualities that many long-term dividend-raisers have.

We currently have ten Buy List stocks that have raised their dividend for at least 20 years in a row:

Hormel Foods (HRL) 53 years
Becton Dickinson (BDX) 47 years
RPM International (RPM) 45 years
Sherwin-Williams (SHW) 40 years
AFLAC (AFL) 36 years
Stryker (SYK) 25 years
Ross Stores (ROST) 24 years
Church & Dwight (CHD) 22 years
JM Smucker (SJM) 21 years
Factset Research System (FDS) 20 years

Of our new stocks, Raytheon (RTN) is at 14 years and Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR) is at 12. Both Disney (DIS) and Hershey (HSY) are at nine. Eagle Bancorp (EGBN) doesn’t currently pay a dividend.

Posted by on January 2nd, 2019 at 7:52 am


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