3 Top Dividend Kings to Buy for the Long Haul

If you're hunting for stocks that you can expect to keep hiking their dividends year after year, look no further than the Dividend Kings. Every member of this elite group has a history of raising dividend payments year after year without interruption for at least 50 years, and many of the businesses are eager to do the same for the next 50 years.

Investing in one of those companies is a fair bet that you'll get the advantage of those hikes for the long haul, so let's examine three of the juicier royals that are ripe for buying today.

Becton, Dickinson (NYSE: BDX) makes the healthcare goods that the world's clinics, laboratories, and operating rooms need, like sterile dressings, diagnostic tests, and test tubes. And it's getting into cloud-based software for pharmacies and research groups, too.

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