The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index is made up of the 54 S&P 500 SPX stocks that have raised dividend payouts for 25 consecutive years. They are all great additions to a long term dividend portfolio.
Here’s the full list:
1. 3M Co. (MMM)
2. Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
3. AbbVie (ABBV)
4. AFLAC Inc. (AFL)
5. Air Products & Chemicals Inc. (APD)
6. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM)
7. AT&T (T)
8. Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
9. BD Becton, Dickinson & Co. (BDX)
10. Bemis Co. Inc. (BMS)
11. Brown-Forman Corp. B (BF/B)
12. C.R.Bard (BCR)
13. Cardinal Health (CAH)
14. Chevron (CVX)
15. Chubb Corp. (CB)
16. Cincinnati Financial Corp. (CINF)
17. Cintas Corp. (CTAS)
18. Clorox Co. (CLX)
19. Coca-Cola Co. (KO)
20. Colgate-Palmolive (CL)
21. Consolidated Edison Inc. (ED)
22. Dover Corp. (DOV)
23. Ecolab Inc. (ECL)
24. Emerson Electric Co. (EMR)
25. Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM)
26. Family Dollar Stores Inc. (FDO)
27. Franklin Resources (BEN)
28. Genuine Parts (GPC)
29. HCP (HCP)
30. Hormel Foods Corp. (HRL)
31. Illinois Tool Works (ITW)
32. Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
33. Kimberly-Clark (KMB)
34. Leggett & Platt (LEG)
35. Lowe’s Cos Inc. (LOW)
36. McCormick & Co. (MKC)
37. McDonald’s Corp. (MCD)
38. McGraw-Hill Cos Inc. (MHFI)
39. Medtronic (MDT)
40. Nucor (NUE)
41. Pentair Ltd (PNR)
42. Pepsi Co (PEP)
43. PPG Industries Inc. (PPG)
44. Procter & Gamble (PG)
45. Sherwin-Williams Co. (SHW)
46. Sigma-Aldrich Corp. (SIAL)
47. Stanley Black & Decker (SWK)
48. Sysco (SYY)
49. T. Rowe Price Group (TROW)
50. Target Corp. (TGT)
51. VF Corp. (VFC)
52. W.W. Grainger (GWW)
53. Walgreen Co. (WAG)
54. Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)
