The Best 3 Dividend Aristocrats Over the Last 10 Years

The Best 3 Dividend Aristocrats Over the Last 10 Years

Stocks that have paid dividends over long periods of time are often well-managed companies that run a good business and take a measure of care with their money. Even better are those that have consistently raised their payouts over the years, and that's where we find the Dividend Aristocrats, companies that have unfailingly raised their dividend every year for at least 25 years.

Below are the top three Dividend Aristocrat performers from the S&P 500 -- they have outshined their counterparts over the last 10 years. While the pool of great stocks with a long history of increasing dividends -- American States Water, for example, is the reigning king of dividend-hiking stocks, with a record 62 straight years of increases, but it's not a member of the S&P 500 -- we're going to look only at the best that occupy the market index: McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), Hormel Foods (NYSE: HRL), and Sherwin-Williams (NYSE: SHW).

Image source: McDonald's.

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