Dividend growth streaks are impressive, but investors should be careful not to assume that they will continue indefinitely. Changes can happen with a company and new risks may arise, potentially putting once-safe Dividend payments in jeopardy. Three stocks with impressive growth streaks that I could see ending before the end of the decade are Johnson Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Altria Group (NYSE: MO), and 3M (NYSE: MMM).

In April of this year, healthcare giant Johnson Johnson announced it would be raising its dividend by 5.3%. It marked the 61st consecutive year that the company has increased its payout. It's a long streak, even among other Dividend Kings. 

Its 3.3% dividend yield is attractive right now, but this is not a payout that I would feel comfortable buying and forgetting about. That's because the company still faces the risk of paying out substantial fines for the talc-related lawsuits brought against it. With tens of thousands of plaintiffs and multiple judges now rejecting the company's efforts to put the liabilities in a subsidiary and to bankrupt it, in an effort to cap its potential exposure to the claims, there's a huge cloud over the business.

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