
Dividend Aristocrats
What is a Dividend Aristocrat?
According to Investopedia, “dividend aristocrats” are companies that are in the S&P 500 that annually improves the amount of a consistently payed out dividend for more than 25 years in a row.
How Many S&P 500 Companies Pay Dividends?
Currently about 400 of the 500 stocks on the S&P 500 pay out dividends or about 81%. Our picture here is the same dividend aristocrats list for 2023-2022 that you will find below in the chart.
Dividend Aristocrats List
Company | Sector | Years of Dividend Growth Consecutive |
General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) | Industrials | 25 |
Church & Dwight (NYSE:CHD) | Consumer Staples | 26 |
Albemarle Corp. (NYSE:ALB) | Materials | 28 |
Essex Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE:ESS) | Real estate | 28 |
Realty Income Corporation (NYSE:O) | Real estate | 28 |
International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) | Information technology | 28 |
NextEra Energy Inc. (NYSE:NEE) | Utilities | 28 |
Linde (NYSE:LIN) | Materials | 29 |
Chubb (NYSE:CB) | Financials | 29 |
Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. (NASDAQ:EXPD) | Industrials | 29 |
Brown & Brown (NYSE:BRO) | Financials | 29 |
Ecolab (NYSE:ECL) | Materials | 30 |
West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. (NYSE:WST) | Healthcare | 30 |
Roper Technologies (NYSE:ROP) | Industrials | 30 |
A.O. Smith (NYSE:AOS) | Industrials | 31 |
Chevron (NYSE:CVX) | Energy | 35 |
McCormick & Co. (NYSE:MKC) | Consumer staples | 36 |
T. Rowe Price Group (NASDAQ:TROW) | Financials | 36 |
Cardinal Health (NYSE:CAH) | Healthcare | 36 |
Brown-Forman (B Shares) (NYSE:BF.B) | Consumer staples | 38 |
Atmos Energy Corporation (NYSE:ATO) | Utilities | 38 |
Aflac (NYSE:AFL) | Financials | 39 |
Cintas (NASDAQ:CTAS) | Industrials | 39 |
Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) | Financials | 40 |
Air Products & Chemicals (NYSE:APD) | Materials | 40 |
Amcor PLC (NYSE:AMCR) | Materials | 40 |
ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM) | Energy | 40 |
Sherwin-Williams (NYSE:SHW) | Materials | 44 |
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) | Healthcare | 45 |
Pentair (NYSE:PNR) | Industrials | 46 |
McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD) | Consumer discretionary | 46 |
Walgreens Boots Alliance (NASDAQ:WBA) | Consumer staples | 47 |
Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED) | Utilities | 48 |
Lowe’s (NYSE:LOW) | Consumer discretionary | 48 |
Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP) | Information technology | 48 |
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) | Consumer staples | 49 |
Nucor (NYSE:NUE) | Materials | 49 |
S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI) | Financials | 49 |
Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) | Consumer staples | 49 |
Walmart (NYSE:WMT) | Consumer staples | 49 |
VF Corp. (NYSE:VFC) | Consumer discretionary | 49 |
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE:ABT) | Healthcare | 50 |
Kimberly Clark (NYSE:KMB) | Consumer staples | 50 |
W.W. Grainger (NYSE:GWW) | Industrials | 51 |
Becton, Dickinson & Co. (NYSE:BDX) | Healthcare | 51 |
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG) | Materials | 51 |
Target (NYSE:TGT) | Consumer discretionary | 51 |
AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV) | Healthcare | 51 |
Sysco (NYSE:SYY) | Consumer staples | 53 |
Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK) | Industrials | 55 |
Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT) | Real estate | 55 |
Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL) | Consumer staples | 56 |
Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW) | Industrials | 58 |
Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL) | Consumer staples | 59 |
Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) | Consumer staples | 60 |
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) | Healthcare | 60 |
Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ:CINF) | Financials | 61 |
3M (NYSE:MMM) | Industrials | 64 |
Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) | Consumer discretionary | 66 |
Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) | Consumer staples | 66 |
Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR) | Industrials | 66 |
Dover (NYSE:DOV) | Industrials | 67 |
Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) | Industrials | 29** |
Clorox (NYSE:CLX) | Consumer staples | 36+* |