Investors would be well-advised to focus on buying shares in businesses with an established track record of rewarding stockholders. Aside from perhaps well-executed share buyback programs, there is no better buy-and-hold signal than when a company sends its shareholders more cash dividends, year in and year out.

That's because only remarkable businesses can hand out ever-higher streams of cash to their owners. Having more than doubled their payouts in the past decade, these two companies below have demonstrated their commitment to shareholders.

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