Dividend Track Records

A typical Air Products truck transporting industrial gases (image credit: company website) Air Products and Chemicals, Inc . (trading symbol APD) will raise its quarterly dividend for the 41st consecutive year with another 8% dividend hike to $1.75 quarterly per share. This matches a dividend hike of 8% announced in 2022. The industrial gases company announced this new dividend increase on January 26, 2023.

On January 27, 2023, Dividend Aristocrat Cincinnati Financial (trading symbol CINF) announced a dividend hike of 8.7% from $0.69 to $0.75 quarterly per share. This marks 63 straight years of dividend growth for the insurer.

On December 13, 2022, Dividend Aristocrat Franklin Resources (trading symbol BEN) announced a 3.4% dividend hike to 30 cents per share. The investment management company has now increased its dividend 42 years in a row, but dividend growth is slowing with the smallest hike in many years.

On December 8, 2022,  water, hygiene and infection prevention solutions and services provider Ecolab (trading symbol ECL) declared a 3.9% dividend hike to $0.53 quarterly per share. This marks 37 consecutive years of dividend growth for the  Dividend Aristocrat.   Ecolab has paid cash dividends on its common stock for 86 consecutive years.

On november 10, 2022, Roper Technologies (trading symbol ROP) declared a new quarterly dividend of $0.6825 per share, up 10.1% from the previous quarterly dividend of $0.62 per share. This new dividend hike marks 30 consecutive years of increased dividends by Dividend Aristocrat Roper.

Insurer Aflac has now raised the dividend forty consecutive years. On November 8, 2022, insurer AFLAC (trading symbol AFL) announced a 5% dividend increase to $0.42 quarterly per share. This marks the 40th consecutive year of increased dividends by the Dividend Aristocrat.

On October 13, 2022, McDonald's (trading symbol: MCD) announced 10.1% dividend increase to a new record high of $1.52 quarterly per share. This marks the 46th consecutive year of dividend growth for the  the world's leading global foodservice retailer.

In October 2022, investors with a smaller budget can now finally buy Nintendo shares more easily. The Japanese gaming company split its shares in the ratio 1:10.

Dividend Aristocrat Altria (ticker symbol MO) will raise its dividend for the 53rd consecutive year in 2022. The dividend yield for the tobacco company is 8.2%

Dover Corporation (DOV) will raise its dividend by 1.0 percent this year. This is a very small dividend hike by the industrial company but ensures that the dividend track record will be remained.

Dividend Aristocrat Illinois Tool Works (ITW) will increase its dividend by 7 percent to $1.31 per share quarterly in 2022. 

Dividend Aristocrat Walgreens Boots Alliance (ticker symbol WBA) will increase its dividend by 0.5 percent, marking the 47th consecutive year of dividend increases. It's the smallest dividend hike by WBA in decades. Last year WBA announced a 2.1 percent dividend increase.

Dividend Aristocrat Clorox (CLX) on July 12, 2022 declared a quarterly dividend of $1.18 per share. This will mark the 45th consecutive year of increased dividend by Clorox.

Medtronic has raised its dividend 45 consecutive years. Dividend Aristocrat Medtronic PLC (ticker symbol MDT) has announced a dividend increase of 7.9% to 68 cents per share quarterly. The medical technology company will now have raised its dividend 45 consecutive years.

Dividend Aristocrat Lowe's had announced a 30%+ dividend hike in both 2022 and 2021 (image source: company website) Home improvement giant Lowe's Companies (symbol LOW) again announces a 30 percent + dividend hike with a 31.3 percent increase to $1.05 quarterly. Last year Lowe's already announced a 33.3 percent dividend hike.

Dividend Aristocrat Cardinal Health (CAH) will increase its quarterly dividend by 1% to $0.4957 per share in 2022, marking 38 years in a row of increased dividends.

Specialty home products retailer Williams-Sonoma (WSM) will raise its quarterly cash dividend by 9.9 percent to 78 cents per share in 2022. The year 2022 will mark 16  consecutive years of dividend increases by WSM. A new annual rate of $3.12 per share yields 1.9% to Williams-Sonoma shareholders at a stock price of $157. The next quarterly WSM dividend is payable on May 27, 2022, to stockholders of record as of the close of business on April 22, 2022. The Board of Directors also approved a new $1.5 billion stock repurchase authorization, which supersedes the approximately $750 million that remains outstanding under the company’s current stock repurchase authorization.  “Our impressive finish to fiscal 2021, our strong liquidity position, and our operating cash flows have allowed us to increase our quarterly dividend, and to authorize a new stock repurchase program of $1.5 billion,” said Laura Alber, President and Chief Executive Officer. “These actions reflect our commitment t...

Lindt & Spruengli is known for its famous chocolate gold bunny, or 'goldhase' Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG , the Switzerland-based and globally active holding company developing, producing and selling chocolate products, will pay a CHF 1200 per share dividend in 2022. The Swiss Dividend Aristocrat has raised its dividend for more than 25 consecutive years.

Linde plc, formerly Praxair, will raise its quarterly dividend by 10.4 percent to $1.17 per share in 2022. This will mark the 29th consecutive year of dividend increases by the industrial gases company.

S&P Global (ticker symbol SPGI) will raise its dividend by 10.4% to 85 cents per share quarterly in 2022. This is the 49th consecutive year of dividend increases by the company.