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Dividend Aristocrat Definition and Meaning

Dividend Aristocrats are stocks listed in the S&P 500 and have paid and increased its dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years. NOBL S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF is an ETF tracking Dividend Aristocrats. The page provides an updated list of Dividend Aristocrats from NOBL ETF (as of May 6, 2022). Note that, M&T Bank acquired acquisition of People’s United Financial, Inc. (NASDAQ: PBCT) in April 2022. Thus, this current Dividend Aristocrats list has 64 stocks.

List of Dividend Aristocrat Stocks

Consumer Discretionary

Ticker	Full Name	Years of Dividend Growth
GPC	Genuine Parts Company	66
LOW	Lowe’s Companies, Inc.	48
MCD	McDonald’s	45
TGT	Target Corporation	50
VFC	V.F. Corporation	50

Dividend Aristocrat Consumer Discretionary

Consumer Staples

Ticker	Full name	Years of Dividend Growth
ADM	Archer-Daniels-Midland	48
BF-B	Brown Forman Inc	38
CHD	Church & Dwight	26
CL	Colgate-Palmolive	60
CLX	Clorox Company	46
HRL	Hormel Foods	56
KMB	Kimberly-Clark	49
KO	Coca-Cola	60
MKC	McCormick & Company	36
PEP	Pepsico	49
PG	Procter & Gamble	66
SYY	Sysco	42
WBA	Walgreens Boots Alliance	46
WMT	Walmart Inc.	49

Dividend Aristocrat Consumer Staples

Energy

Logo	Ticker	Full Name	Years of Dividend Growth
	CVX	Chevron Corporation	35
	XOM	Exxon Mobil Corporation	38

Dividend Aristocrat Energy

Financials

Ticker	Full Name	Years of Dividend Growth
AFL	AFLAC	39
BEN	Franklin Resources	41
BRO	Brown & Brown	28
CB	Chubb Limited	29
CINF	Cincinnati Financial	62
SPGI	S&P Global Inc.	49
TROW	T. Rowe Price Group	36

Dividend Aristocrat Financials

Health Care

Ticker	Full Name	Years of Dividend Growth
ABBV	AbbVie Inc.	50
ABT	Abbott Laboratories	50
BDX	Becton, Dickinson and Company	50
CAH	Cardinal Health, Inc.	35
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	60
MDT	Medtronic plc.	44
WST	West Pharmaceutical Services	29

Dividend Aristocrat Health Care

Industrials

Ticker	Full Name	Years of Dividend Growth
AOS	A.O. Smith Corporation	29
CAT	Caterpillar, Inc.	28
CTAS	Cintas Corporation	38
DOV	Dover Corporation	66
EMR	Emerson Electric Company	60
EXPD	Expeditors International of Washington	28
GD	General Dynamics Corporation	31
GWW	W.W. Grainger, Inc.	51
ITW	Illinois Tool Works Inc.	51
MMM	3M Company	64
PNR	Pentair plc.	45
ROP	Roper Technologies, Inc.	29
SWK	Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	54

Dividend Aristocrat Industrials

Information Technology

Logo	Ticker	Full Name	Years of Dividend Growth
	ADP	Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	47
	IBM	International Business Machines	26

Dividend Aristocrat Information Technology

Materials

Ticker	Full name	Years of Dividend Growth
ALB	Albemarle Corporation	28
AMCR	Amcor plc	39
APD	Air Products and Chemicals, Inc	40
ECL	Ecolab Inc.	30
LIN	Linde plc	29
NUE	Nucor Corporation	49
PPG	PPG Industries, Inc.	50
SHW	Sherwin-Williams Company (The)	43