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+* |