Is McCormick a Great Dividend Stock?

Dividend stocks aren't hard to find, given that all of the members of the Dow Jones Industrial Average and three-quarters of the S&P 500 pay out regular disbursements to shareholders.

The challenge is tougher when you're looking for the very best stocks, those that have a high likelihood of paying steadily increasing dividends for decades while providing capital appreciation at the same time.

Below, we'll put spicing and flavorings specialist McCormick (NYSE: MKC) through that test to see whether this consumer staples giant has what it takes to qualify as a great dividend stock.

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