Rising-payment streaks in our stored history: 50 years or more
Fifty or more consecutive completed calendar years of increases inside the payment history we hold. Our data starts long after some of these companies did, so these are the longest runs we can see — not the longest records that exist.
Securities in this list3
Median forward yield est.1.96%Last regular payment annualised ÷ price. Middle of the list, not an average
Median trailing 12m yield2.41%Cash actually paid over the last 365 days ÷ price
Most rising years in our history55+ yrsLongest 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
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.
Half a century of consecutive increases is a rare thing, and this page will usually be short — or empty. That is expected. Very few businesses survive fifty years in a recognisable form, fewer still pay a dividend throughout, and fewer again raise it every single year without a flat year in a recession.
There is a second reason this list may be shorter than the ones published elsewhere: we count rising years from the payment history stored in this database, and fifty rising years requires fifty-one years of payments on file. Where our history is shallower than a company's real record, the count we show is capped by our data, not by the company's behaviour — which is also why nothing on this page should be read as a ranking of company records. A row whose run reaches our first stored year is printed with a plus and a dagger, and the issuer's own investor-relations page will give a longer figure. Treat an empty or thin page as a statement about our history depth as much as about the market.
Where a genuine fifty-year record does exist, it is worth understanding what produced it. These tend to be businesses with pricing power, low capital intensity relative to cash generation, and a board culture that treats the dividend as a fixed obligation rather than a residual. That culture is also the risk: a company that will not break its streak may keep raising a payment it can no longer comfortably fund, borrowing to do it.
As with every list on this site, this is a filter applied to stored data, not a shortlist. The rising-years column describes what has already happened, over the years we hold. Whether a fifty-year record is worth what it currently costs is a separate question, and not one this page answers.
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.
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 3 of the 3 securities matching this filter. Ranked on the number of rising years visible in our stored payment history, with both the forward and the trailing twelve-month yield shown for every row. 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: 50 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.
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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.
† 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.
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.
The record can become the risk
A very long record can itself create pressure to maintain a payment beyond the point it is comfortably covered. Check the payout ratio and the growth rate, not only the number of rising years.
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.
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.
