Twenty-five straight years of raises, through 2008 and 2020. That is the dividend aristocrats list, S&P 500 membership required. The track record earns the hall-of-fame talk.
- A quarter century of raises means management treats the payout as sacred and the balance sheet backs it - Aristocrats trade at a premium because everyone knows the list; past streaks do not guarantee the next raise - Treat it as a starting screen, not a buy list; the crown gets an interview, not the job - Verify the streak with multi-year history, not a listicle; one wrong year breaks the premise - New members join most years; the new blood often has better growth than the old guard
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DivPlan ($4.99 one-time) shows aristocrats ranked by yield with payout ratios attached, so the list becomes a plan.