15 Dividends That Have Grown for 10 Straight Years (or More)
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One of the many benefits of owning stocks is the chance to receive small chunks of a company's profit in the form of regular checks. We're talking about dividends, of course, and a great many companies pay them every quarter. Dividend policies are not set in stone, though, so there's no guarantee that a particular company will keep shoveling them into shareholders' hands.
But there are a raft of companies on the stock exchanges that have managed to hand out regular dividends for at least a decade running -- in some cases, for many decades -- and look set to maintain that habit. Some of these businesses are household names.
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