The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats is the most prestigious list of dividend stocks. The Dividend Aristocrats index is designed to measure the performance of S&P 500 constituents that have followed a policy of consistently increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. This index is a member of the S&P Dividend Aristocrats index series.
Dividend Aristocrats constituents exhibit the following characteristics:
- Underlying Indices – S&P 500
- Weighting – Equally weighted; Constituents re-weighted quarterly
- Reconstitution – Reviewed annually in December
- Clorox Co (CLX) - 32 years
- Coca-Cola Co (KO) - 47 years - [Analysis]
- Exxon (XOM) - 27 years
- Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) - 47 years - [Analysis]
- McDonald’s Corp (MCD) - 33 years - [Analysis]
- Procter & Gamble (PG) - 53 years - [Analysis]
- Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) -35 years - [Analysis]
On December 4th, S&P announced changes to the Dividend Aristocrats Index. Standard & Poor’s will perform the annual reconstitution of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index after the close of trading on Friday, December 18, 2009.
The following stocks will be added to the Dividend Aristocrats:
- Brown-Forman Corporation (BF.B)
- Cintas Corp. (CTAS)
- Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY)
- BB&T Corp. (BBT)
- Gannett Co., Inc. (GCI)
- General Electric Co. (GE)
- Johnson Controls Inc. (JCI)
- Legg Mason Inc. (LM)
- M&T Bank Corp. (MTB)
- Pfizer Inc. (PFE)
- State Street Corp. (STT)
- US Bancorp (USB)
Full Disclosure: Long CLX, KO, JNJ, MCD, PG, WMT. See a list of all my income holdings here.
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