3 Dividend Aristocrats You Can Buy Today

For an S&P 500 stock to become dividend royalty, it has to have increased its annual dividend for at least 25 years in a row. Currently, only 65 of the stocks in that index of large-cap companies qualify, with seven of these Dividend Aristocrats coming from the financial sector. 

Dividend Aristocrat status generally implies that the company is not only a good stock for income investors, but that it is also typically a good stock for consistent long-term returns. That's because a company that can maintain an increasing dividend has a lot of things going for it, especially stability.

Here are three Dividend Aristocrats in the financial sector that would make good investments today.

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