Dividend stocks

Rising-payment streaks in our stored history: 25 years or more

Securities where the payment history we hold shows twenty-five or more consecutive completed calendar years of higher total payments. Several of these companies were raising the dividend before our data starts, so the counts here are floors rather than company records.

Securities in this list 49

Median forward yield est. 2.65% Last regular payment annualised ÷ price. Middle of the list, not an average

Median trailing 12m yield 2.63% Cash actually paid over the last 365 days ÷ price

Most rising years in our history 55+ yrs Longest run of rising years inside the payment history we store. Our history is shallower than some issuers' records, so this is a floor, not a company record

Next ex-dividend date Aug 28 Earliest ex-date strictly after today

Which securities this list covers

Every figure on this page covers US-listed common stocks and REITs only. Preferred series and exchange-traded baby bonds are excluded by the database query itself, not filtered out by hand: both pay a contractual coupon on a fixed face amount rather than a dividend a board can raise, and they are covered on the preferred stocks and bonds pages instead. Fund wrappers — ETFs, closed-end funds and covered-call funds — and pass-through structures such as BDCs and MLPs are outside this set too, because a fund distribution is the sum of what its holdings paid minus fees, which is not the same measurement as a company dividend. Counts, medians, averages and sector aggregates below are computed across that equity set and nothing else.

Twenty-five consecutive years of increases is the threshold the most widely quoted dividend index uses, which is why it has become shorthand for a durable payment record. A quarter-century covers the dot-com bust, the global financial crisis, a decade of near-zero rates, a pandemic and an inflation shock — a company that raised through all of that has demonstrated something no ratio on this page can show on its own.

It is important to be precise about what this list is. We count rising years from the payments stored in our own database: calendar-year totals, compared year against year, ignoring special dividends. We do not apply an index provider's rules, so this is not the Dividend Aristocrats and membership will not match it. Index versions additionally require inclusion in a parent index, a minimum market capitalisation and a minimum trading volume, and they handle spin-offs and payment-date shifts under their own published methodology.

The practical consequence is that our list can be both wider and narrower. Wider, because we include qualifying REITs, funds and mid-caps that no index would admit. Narrower, because our count only goes back as far as the payment data we hold — a company that has genuinely raised for forty years but for which we store fifteen years of payments shows fifteen rising years here, not forty. The 'Our history starts' column gives the first year of payments we hold for each row, and a figure printed with a plus and a dagger is one whose run reaches that first year, so the real record runs on past the edge of the table.

Read this list alongside the yield and payout columns rather than instead of them. A long record tells you about the board's behaviour through past cycles. It tells you nothing about the price you would pay today, and buying a 25-year record at any price is a decision about valuation, which no column here can settle.

Forward yield and trailing yield are two different numbers

Two different yields appear in these tables and they are not interchangeable, which is why neither is ever headed simply 'Yield' and why both columns spell their basis out in the header rather than in a note. Yield (forward est.) is a forward estimate: the most recent regular payment multiplied by the number of payments a year, divided by the latest price. It describes what the next twelve months would pay if the payment and the price both stood still, and neither of those is promised. Yield (trailing 12m) looks backwards: the cash actually paid out over the last 365 days, divided by the same price. Where a security's cadence is irregular, or its last payment is too old for the stream to look live, the forward column falls back to the trailing figure — that is why the two columns are sometimes identical. A gap between them is information rather than an error: it usually means the payment was raised or cut during the year, or that a special distribution sits inside the trailing number. Neither column is comparable to a Treasury yield, a bond's yield to maturity, a credit index effective yield or a bank deposit APY without first adjusting for what each of those measures.

This list measures our payment history, not a company record

What a rising-year count on this site is, and what it is not. We add up the regular payments we hold for each completed calendar year and count backwards for as long as each year is above the one before it. That count is bounded twice over: it can never reach further back than the first year of payments in our database, and it is measured on split-adjusted amounts from a single data provider. Where the run reaches that first stored year the table shows the figure with a trailing plus and a dagger, because at that point we have run out of history rather than out of increases, and the company's own record is longer than the number in the column. Widely quoted records — the ones a company reports in its own investor materials, and the ones index providers publish — start from company filings going back further than our payment feed, and they apply their own rules on spin-offs, special dividends and payment-date shifts. Treat the figures here as the streak visible in our data, and the issuer as the authority on its record.

The list

Every security in our database matching this list's filter. Click a ticker for its full payment history.

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Our payment history for a security begins wherever the data provider's history begins — often the early 1970s — so a rising-year figure in this table counts only the years we can see: an issuer may have raised its dividend for decades before our first stored payment, which means the numbers here are frequently shorter than the record the company itself reports, and the issuer's own investor-relations page is the authority on that record.

The table below lists 49 of the 49 securities matching this filter. Ranked on the number of rising years visible in our stored payment history. Yields are shown on both bases — forward estimate and trailing twelve months — because a long record says nothing about what the shares currently cost. Each row shows the structure of the security, its sector, the latest stored price and market capitalisation, both yield bases, the forward dividend per share, the payment schedule, the number of rising years visible in our own payment history and the next ex-dividend date after today. It is a research screen, not a recommendation.

Rising-payment streaks in our stored history: 25 years or more — computed from stored prices and individual dividend payments. Yield (forward est.) annualises the last regular payment; Yield (trailing 12m) is the cash paid over the last 365 days. Both are divided by the latest stored price. The rising-years column counts only the years inside our own payment history.
Ticker	Name	Type	Sector	Price	Yield (forward est.)Latest payment, annualised, over today's price.	Yield (trailing 12m)	Forward div / share / yrWhat a share is on track to pay over a year.	Pays	Rising years in our historyConsecutive years the payment rose, within the history we hold.	Our history starts	5y dividend growth (CAGR)	Next ex-date (after today)
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	Common stock	Healthcare	$273.14	1.96%	2.41%	$5.36	Quarterly	55+ †	1970	5.25%	—
EMR	Emerson Electric Co.	Common stock	Industrials	$154.93	1.43%	1.43%	$2.22	Quarterly	53+ †	1972	1.29%	—
ED	Consolidated Edison, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$107.09	3.31%	3.28%	$3.55	Quarterly	50	1970	2.13%	—
HTO	H2O America	Common stock	Utilities	$63.89	2.75%	2.72%	$1.76	Quarterly	45+ †	1980	5.59%	—
WMT	Walmart Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$105.38	0.94%	0.93%	$0.99	Quarterly	43	1974	5.48%	Dec 11, 2026
ADP	Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	Common stock	Technology	$282.78	2.40%	2.35%	$6.80	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	11.54%	Sep 11, 2026
APD	Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.	Common stock	Basic Materials	$303.85	2.38%	2.37%	$7.24	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	5.90%	Oct 01, 2026
BDX	Becton, Dickinson and Company	Common stock	Healthcare	$189.78	2.21%	1.97%	$4.20	Quarterly	42	1973	7.36%	Sep 09, 2026
GPC	Genuine Parts Company	Common stock	Consumer Cyclical	$137.95	3.08%	3.03%	$4.25	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	5.45%	Sep 04, 2026
PEP	PepsiCo, Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$142.27	4.16%	4.04%	$5.92	Quarterly	42	1972	6.93%	Sep 04, 2026
PPG	PPG Industries, Inc.	Common stock	Basic Materials	$113.65	2.60%	2.53%	$2.96	Quarterly	42+ †	1983	5.77%	—
AFL	Aflac Incorporated	Common stock	Financial Services	$116.18	2.10%	2.07%	$2.44	Quarterly	41+ †	1984	15.68%	—
SCL	Stepan Co	Common stock	Basic Materials	$62.04	2.55%	2.53%	$1.58	Quarterly	40+ †	1985	6.52%	Sep 01, 2026
SHW	The Sherwin-Williams Company	Common stock	Basic Materials	$350.45	0.91%	0.91%	$3.20	Quarterly	40+ †	1985	12.08%	—
ATO	Atmos Energy Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$167.56	2.39%	2.91%	$4.00	Quarterly	38	1985	8.97%	—
CINF	Cincinnati Financial Corporation	Common stock	Financial Services	$171.42	2.19%	2.11%	$3.76	Quarterly	38	1984	7.71%	—
HRL	Hormel Foods Corporation	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$23.78	4.92%	4.91%	$1.17	Quarterly	38	1985	4.52%	—
GWW	W.W. Grainger, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$1,301.68	0.77%	0.73%	$9.96	Quarterly	37	1985	8.25%	—
SWK	Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$98.46	3.37%	3.37%	$3.32	Quarterly	36	1985	3.49%	Sep 08, 2026
MDU	MDU Resources Group, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$19.98	2.80%	2.80%	$0.56	Quarterly	35	1989	11.23%	Sep 10, 2026
BMI	Badger Meter, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$136.36	1.17%	0.88%	$1.60	Quarterly	34	1984	16.15%	Aug 28, 2026
ECL	Ecolab Inc.	Common stock	Basic Materials	$289.54	1.01%	0.98%	$2.92	Quarterly	34	1985	7.23%	Sep 15, 2026
FUL	H.B. Fuller Company	Common stock	Basic Materials	$57.01	1.72%	1.68%	$0.98	Quarterly	34	1985	7.45%	—
PG	The Procter & Gamble Company	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$145.40	2.99%	2.95%	$4.35	Quarterly	34	1970	6.02%	—
UVV	Universal Corporation	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$45.89	7.23%	7.17%	$3.32	Quarterly	34	1985	1.27%	Oct 09, 2026
WTRG	Essential Utilities, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$40.76	3.54%	3.41%	$1.44	Quarterly	34	1985	6.62%	—
BRC	Brady Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$93.62	1.05%	1.05%	$0.98	Quarterly	32	1987	2.04%	—
WLY	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.	Common stock	Communication Services	$53.89	2.65%	2.64%	$1.43	Quarterly	32	1984	0.72%	—
WLYB	John Wiley & Sons, Inc.	Common stock	Communication Services	$53.42	2.68%	2.66%	$1.43	Quarterly	32	1984	0.72%	—
CFR	Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$163.38	2.52%	2.47%	$4.12	Quarterly	31	1984	6.75%	Aug 31, 2026
ESS	Essex Property Trust, Inc.	REIT	Real Estate	$292.00	3.55%	3.53%	$10.36	Quarterly	31+ †	1994	4.10%	—
EXPD	Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.	Common stock	Industrials	$189.05	0.86%	0.84%	$1.62	Semi-annual	31	1993	8.17%	—
MATW	Matthews International Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$21.50	4.74%	4.74%	$1.02	Quarterly	31+ †	1994	3.53%	—
BRO	Brown & Brown, Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$73.34	0.90%	0.90%	$0.66	Quarterly	30	1987	12.09%	—
IBM	International Business Machines Corporation	Common stock	Technology	$234.19	2.89%	2.88%	$6.76	Quarterly	30	1970	1.52%	—
NEE	NextEra Energy, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$84.22	2.96%	2.83%	$2.49	Quarterly	30	1973	10.11%	Aug 28, 2026
NFG	National Fuel Gas Company	Common stock	Energy	$82.14	2.70%	2.63%	$2.22	Quarterly	29	1987	3.67%	—
PII	Polaris Inc.	Common stock	Consumer Cyclical	$63.56	4.28%	4.25%	$2.72	Quarterly	29	1987	1.56%	Sep 01, 2026
YORW	The York Water Company	Common stock	Utilities	$34.29	2.66%	2.63%	$0.91	Quarterly	29	1995	4.00%	Sep 30, 2026
ARTNA	Artesian Resources Corporation	Common stock	Utilities	$35.80	3.57%	3.54%	$1.28	Quarterly	28	1994	4.10%	—
GD	General Dynamics Corporation	Common stock	Industrials	$376.58	1.69%	1.64%	$6.36	Quarterly	28	1970	6.50%	Oct 09, 2026
MKC	McCormick & Company, Incorporated	Common stock	Consumer Defensive	$54.48	3.52%	3.47%	$1.92	Quarterly	28	1984	7.58%	—
UHT	Universal Health Realty Income Trust	REIT	Real Estate	$42.14	7.12%	7.07%	$3.00	Quarterly	28	1987	1.41%	—
CWT	California Water Service Group	Common stock	Utilities	$50.61	2.65%	2.58%	$1.34	Quarterly	27	1985	7.85%	—
MGRC	McGrath RentCorp	Common stock	Industrials	$114.73	1.73%	1.71%	$1.98	Quarterly	27	1990	3.37%	—
FDS	FactSet Research Systems Inc.	Common stock	Financial Services	$296.08	1.57%	1.51%	$4.64	Quarterly	26+ †	1999	7.45%	Aug 31, 2026
MGEE	MGE Energy, Inc.	Common stock	Utilities	$79.01	2.40%	2.40%	$1.90	Quarterly	26	1987	5.07%	—
ES	Eversource Energy	Common stock	Utilities	$71.03	4.43%	4.34%	$3.15	Quarterly	25	1973	5.81%	—
SO	The Southern Company	Common stock	Utilities	$89.97	3.38%	3.33%	$3.04	Quarterly	25	1982	2.97%	—

† A figure marked with a dagger is a floor, not a total. The rising run reaches the first year of payment history we hold for that security, so the count stops where our data stops rather than where the company's record does — the real record is longer by an amount we cannot see from here. Check the issuer's investor-relations page, which publishes its own dividend history, before quoting any of these numbers as a company record.

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Data as of Aug 25, 2026.

Prices and market capitalisations last refreshed Aug 25, 2026; the yields, streaks and next ex-dates beside them were derived Aug 25, 2026. Nothing here is a live quote.

How to read our rising-year count

The count in this table is limited by how much payment history we store, so a number here is a floor, never a ceiling: a company's real record can be far longer, and never appears shorter than we show it. Read the figure as 'at least this many rising years in our data', check the payment list on the security's own page, and treat the issuer's investor-relations page as the authority on the record itself.

How dividend income goes wrong

A dividend is a decision, not a contract. Boards can cut or suspend a payment at any meeting, and they usually do it at the worst moment — when earnings, the balance sheet and the share price are already under pressure, so the income and the capital fall together. A yield far above its peer group is normally the market pricing in that cut rather than an oversight: the yield is high because the price has already fallen. Dividends can also shrink in real terms if they grow more slowly than inflation, and a single-stock income stream concentrates company risk, sector risk and, for foreign payers, currency and withholding risk. Past payments are a record, not a promise.

About the research score

The research score is a screen, not a recommendation and not a credit rating. It blends the current yield, how much of reported earnings the payment consumes, the length of the rising-payment run visible in our stored history and how many years of payments we hold for the security at all — both of the last two are bounded by how far back our payment data goes, so a company with a long record but a short file scores lower than one with the same record and deeper data. A high score means a security matched those four mechanical tests on the day the numbers were computed. It says nothing about what the shares will do next, and it does not know about a lawsuit, a refinancing or a lost contract. Full definitions are on the methodology page.

How this list is built

This page is a single filter applied to the same database that drives every other table on the site: a security qualifies or it does not, and the order is set by the column named in the section heading. Nothing is hand-picked, promoted or paid for, and no position on the page implies anything about the merits of the security in it.

Yields, payment schedules, rising-year counts and payout ratios are all computed from the quotes and individual payments we store, so any figure here can be checked against the payment list on the security's own page. That also sets the limit on the rising-year column: it counts within the payments we hold and stops where they start, so for a long-established payer it is a floor and the issuer's own investor-relations page is the authority on the company's record. Where we hold no data — a missing payout ratio, an unknown next ex-date — the cell is blank rather than filled with an estimate. The next ex-date column shows only dates strictly after today, because a security going ex today is already trading without that payment. The methodology page sets out every definition in full.

Where each number on this page comes from. Price, market capitalisation and the security's name, sector and industry: Financial Modeling Prep, quote and company-screener endpoints, stored daily by pipeline/quotes.py and weekly by pipeline/universe.py. Individual dividend payments — amount, ex-date, record date, pay date and whether the payment was regular or special: Financial Modeling Prep, dividends endpoint, stored by pipeline/dividends_fmp.py. Payout ratio: Financial Modeling Prep, ratios-ttm endpoint, stored by pipeline/fundamentals.py and measured against GAAP earnings per share. Everything else — the forward yield estimate, the trailing twelve-month yield, the payment cadence, the count of rising years and the first year of history it could be counted from, the five-year growth rate, the next ex-date and the research score — is computed on this server by pipeline/compute.py from those stored payments and prices. No vendor's own yield field is printed anywhere in this section, which is why every figure here can be traced back to a list of individual payments on the security's own page.

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Highest yield

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10+ rising years

Ten or more consecutive rising years inside the payment history we hold.

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50+ rising years

The longest runs our payment history can show. Usually a short page.

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Monthly payers

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Utilities

Regulated electric, gas and water names, underwritten by a rate base.

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Common questions

What is the difference between the forward yield and the trailing 12-month yield in your tables?

They measure different things, so they appear in separate columns, each header names its own basis, and the two are never totalled or averaged together. The forward estimate — headed 'Yield (forward est.)' — is the most recent regular payment multiplied by the number of payments per year, divided by the latest price. It is an estimate of the next twelve months on the assumption that nothing changes. The trailing figure — headed 'Yield (trailing 12m)' — is the cash actually paid over the last 365 days divided by the same price, so it is a record rather than an estimate. Special dividends are excluded from the forward estimate because they are by definition not repeated, but they are inside the trailing number, which is one reason the two can differ. Where a payment cadence cannot be established, or the last payment is too old for the stream to look live, the forward column falls back to the trailing figure and the two columns show the same number.

Which securities are included in the figures on this page?

US-listed common stocks and REITs, and nothing else. Preferred series and exchange-traded baby bonds are excluded by the query: they pay a contractual coupon on a fixed face amount, which is a different instrument from a dividend a board votes on each quarter, and they are covered under preferred stocks and bonds. ETFs, closed-end funds, covered-call funds, BDCs and MLPs are also outside the set used for counts, medians, sector aggregates and the screener. Two curated lists — monthly payers and dividend ETFs — deliberately describe a wider universe, and each states at the top exactly which structures it contains.

Does 'upcoming ex-dividend date' include today?

No. On the ex-dividend date the shares already trade without the right to the payment, so a security going ex today is not an upcoming opportunity to receive that dividend — buying it this morning means the seller keeps the money. On the dividend stocks hub, securities going ex today are separated into their own labelled group rather than left inside the upcoming table, and every 'next ex-dividend date' figure on this site counts only dates strictly after today.

What does a very high yield usually mean?

Usually that the price has already fallen because the market expects the payment to be cut. Yield is a fraction: when the numerator is unchanged and the denominator collapses, the yield rises. A double-digit yield in a sector where everyone else pays 3% is a question to investigate, not a bargain to assume. It can also be an artefact — a fund distributing return of capital, a partnership passing through a one-off, or a stale price in our data.

Why is your rising-year figure shorter than the record the company reports?

Because the two count over different windows. Our figure counts consecutive rising calendar years inside the payment history stored in this database, and that history begins where our data provider's history begins — frequently the early 1970s. A company that has raised its dividend since the 1950s or 1960s was raising it long before our first stored payment, and we cannot see those years, so the number in our column stops at the edge of our file rather than at the start of the run. Where that happens the table prints the figure with a trailing plus and a dagger to mark it as a floor. It is not a correction of the company's number and it is not a competing count: the issuer's investor-relations page is the authority on its own record, and the figure here is only the part of that record we hold the payments for.