Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they have performed well in the long term. And they held up well in 2022, a year in which broad indexes fell into a bear market.Those are companies that have raised their dividend payouts consistently over the years — they’re dividend royalty, as it were. As a group, they have performed well in the long term.
One way to play the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats as a group is to hold shares of the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF NOBL , which was established in 2013. So here are comparisons of total returns, with dividends reinvested, for NOBL, the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index and the SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust SPY for various periods through Jan. 6:
If you hold shares for many years, and a company raises its dividend year after year, you might build up an income stream with an attractive yield — relative to the price you paid for the shares years ago. Among the 74 companies, here are the 15 that have increased their dividend payouts the most over the past five years. The list is sorted by five-year CAGR for annual dividend rates:Click here for Tomi Kilgore’s detailed guide to the wealth of information for free on the MarketWatch quote page.Looking back at last year’s list A year ago we ran a similar screen to list the 12 best payout compounders among the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats for five years through 2021.
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