Word
Gems
What is a
man but the sum of his thoughts?
Wealth:
Dividend
Aristocrats
SeekingAlpha
- S&P
Dividend Aristocrats:
- Less
Volatility,
- Better
Results Than the S&P 500
Tuesday February 20, 2007
Eddy Elfenbein submits:
Coca-Cola
(NYSE: KO - News) raised its quarterly dividend from 31
cents a share to 34 cents a share. Coke has now raised its dividend for 45
straight years.
While capital gains are my first true
love, dividends are like a friend with benefits. S&P has a list of its Dividend
Aristocrats, stocks that have increased their dividend every year for the last 25 years.
Here's the current list:
Abbott Labs (NYSE: ABT - News)
Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE: ADM -
News)
Automatic Data Processing (NYSE: ADP
- News)
Avery Dennison (NYSE: AVY - News)
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC - News)
BB&T Corporation (NYSE: BBT - News)
Bard (C.R. Bard) Inc. (NYSE: BCR - News)
Becton, Dickinson (NYSE: BDX - News)
Anheuser-Busch (NYSE: BUD - News)
Chubb (NYSE: CB - News)
Compass Bancshares (NasdaqGS: CBSS)
Cincinnati Financial (NasdaqGS: CINF)
Clorox (NYSE: CLX - News)
Comerica (NYSE: CMA - News)
Century Telephone (NYSE: CTL - News)
Dover (NYSE: DOV - News)
Consolidated Edison (NYSE: ED - News)
Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR - News)
Family Dollar Stores (NYSE: FDO - News)
First Horizon National (NYSE: FHN -
News)
Fifth Third Bancorp (NasdaqGS: FITB)
Gannett (NYSE: GCI - News)
General Electric (NYSE: GE - News)
Grainger (W.W.) Inc. (NYSE: GWW - News)
Johnson Controls (NYSE: JCI - News)
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ - News)
KeyCorp (NYSE: KEY - News)
Kimberly-Clark (NYSE: KMB - News)
Coca Cola (NYSE: KO - News)
Leggett & Platt (NYSE: LEG - News)
Lilly (Eli) & Co. (NYSE: LLY - News)
Lowe's (NYSE: LOW - News)
McDonald's (NYSE: MCD - News)
McGraw-Hill (NYSE: MHP - News)
3M Company (NYSE: MMM - News)
Altria (NYSE: MO - News)
M&T Bank (NYSE: MTB - News)
Nucor (NYSE: NUE - News)
PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP - News)
Pfizer (NYSE: PFE - News)
Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG - News)
Progressive (NYSE: PGR - News)
PPG Industries (NYSE: PPG - News)
Regions Financial (NYSE: RF - News)
Rohm & Haas (NYSE: ROH - News)
Sherwin-Williams (NYSE: SHW - News)
Sigma-Aldrich (NasdaqGS: SIAL)
SLM Corporation (NYSE: SLM - News)
Synovus Financial (NYSE: SNV - News)
Questar (NYSE: STR - News)
State Street (NYSE: STT - News)
Supervalu (NYSE: SVU - News)
Stanley Works (NYSE: SWK - News)
Target (NYSE: TGT - News)
U.S. Bancorp (NYSE: USB - News)
V.F. Corp. (NYSE: VFC - News)
Walgreen (NYSE: WAG - News)
Wal-Mart (NYSE: WMT - News)
Wrigley (NYSE: WWY - News)
The Dividend Aristocrats Index has not
only outperformed the S&P 500, but it's been less risky as well. Since 1990, the
Dividend Aristocrats Index is up over 414%. Throw in dividends and it's up 725%. The
S&P 500 is up 312%, and 485% with dividends. The daily volatility of the Dividend
Aristocrats Index has been about 11% less than the S&P 500.
Here's how the two indexes have
performed since 1990 (not including dividends).
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