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. As you can imagine, such a record indicates that those companies have a tested business model and can provide reliable income for dividend investors. All the following yields and returns were based in 2019. I also provide links to Seeking Alpha, where you can see more information about each stock’s fundamental information.
| Name | Ticker | Sector | Yield | Return |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AbbVie | ABBV | Healthcare | 5.54% | -0.77% |
| Abbott Laboratories | ABT | Healthcare | 1.60% | 24.98% |
| Archer-Daniels-Midland | ADM | Consumer S | 3.37% | 13.19% |
| Automatic Data P. | ADP | Information | 2.06% | 31.01% |
| Aflac Incorporated | AFL | Financials | 2.11% | 16.21% |
| Albemarle | ALB | Materials | 2.05% | -6.49% |
| A. O. Smith | AOS | Industrials | 1.87% | 9.59% |
| Air Products and Ch. | APD | Materials | 2.26% | 47.25% |
| Atmos Energy | ATO | Utilities | 2.06% | 24.50% |
| Becton, Dickinson | BDX | Healthcare | 1.26% | 23.58% |
| Franklin Resources | BEN | Financials | 3.44% | -12.96% |
| Brown-Forman | BF.B | Consumer S | 1.21% | 46.73% |
| Cardinal Health | CAH | Healthcare | 3.99% | 12.23% |
| Caterpillar | CAT | Industrials | 2.86% | 16.85% |
| Chubb Limited | CB | Financials | 2.04% | 22.29% |
| Cincinnati Financial | CINF | Financials | 2.28% | 39.05% |
| Colgate-Palmolive | CL | Consumer S | 2.48% | 16.19% |
| Clorox Company | CLX | Consumer S | 2.63% | 1.59% |
| Cintas Corporation | CTAS | Industrials | 1.11% | 60.65% |
| Chevron Corporation | CVX | Energy | 3.98% | 8.87% |
| Dover Corporation | DOV | Industrials | 2.03% | 61.77% |
| Ecolab | ECL | Materials | 1.01% | 33.17% |
| Consolidated Edison | ED | Utilities | 3.45% | 20.40% |
| Emerson Electric Co. | EMR | Industrials | 2.96% | 27.63% |
| Essex Property Trust | ESS | Real Estate | 2.63% | 27.17% |
| Expeditors International | EXPD | Industrials | 1.35% | 15.91% |
| Federal Realty Invest. | FRT | Real Estate | 3.14% | 11.16% |
| General Dynamics | GD | Industrials | 2.26% | 12.14% |
| Genuine Parts Company | GPC | Consumer D | 3.02% | 12.07% |
| W.W. Grainger | GWW | Industrials | 1.95% | 22.39% |
| Hormel Foods Corporation | HRL | Consumer S | 2.00% | 9.15% |
| Illinois Tool Works | ITW | Industrials | 2.73% | 41.89% |
| Johnson & Johnson | JNJ | Healthcare | 2.78% | 14.18% |
| Kimberly-Clark | KMB | Consumer S | 3.19% | 23.04% |
| Coca-Cola Company | KO | Consumer S | 3.16% | 17.94% |
| Leggett & Platt | LEG | Consumer D | 3.77% | 41.16% |
| Linde | LIN | Materials | 1.88% | 35.43% |
| Lowe's Companies | LOW | Consumer D | 1.95% | 29.79% |
| McDonald's | MCD | Consumer D | 2.40% | 12.24% |
| Medtronic plc | MDT | Healthcare | 2.16% | 29.04% |
| McCormick & Company | MKC | Consumer S | 1.52% | 25.15% |
| 3M Company | MMM | Industrials | 3.24% | -7.61% |
| Altria Group | MO | Consumer S | 6.72% | 1.22% |
| Nucor Corporation | NUE | Materials | 2.92% | 7.80% |
| Realty Income | O | Real Estate | 3.78% | 18.89% |
| People's United Financial | PBCT | Financials | 4.35% | 15.04% |
| PepsiCo | PEP | Consumer S | 2.98% | 25.06% |
| Procter & Gamble | PG | Consumer S | 2.68% | 36.83% |
| Parker-Hannifin | PH | Industrials | 1.95% | 36.86% |
| Pentair plc | PNR | Industrials | 1.82% | 21.45% |
| PPG Industries | PPG | Materials | 1.72% | 31.27% |
| Roper Technologies | ROP | Industrials | 0.54% | 32.86% |
| Ross Stores | ROST | Consumer D | 1.26% | 38.96% |
| Raytheon Technologies | RTX | Industrials | 2.23% | 38.28% |
| Sherwin-Williams | SHW | Materials | 0.94% | 48.77% |
| S&P Global | SPGI | Financials | 1.00% | 60.76% |
| Stanley Black & Decker | SWK | Industrials | 1.91% | 37.28% |
| Sysco Corporation | SYY | Consumer S | 2.16% | 37.86% |
| AT&T | T | Communications | 6.06% | 32.30% |
| Target Corporation | TGT | Consumer D | 2.94% | 92.97% |
| T. Rowe Price Group | TROW | Financials | 2.84% | 32.67% |
| V.F. Corporation | VFC | Consumer D | 2.23% | 39.68% |
| Walgreens Boots Alliance | WBA | Consumer S | 3.13% | -13.35% |
| Walmart | WMT | Consumer S | 1.97% | 27.32% |
| Exxon Mobil | XOM | Energy | 4.67% | 0.13% |