Dividend Aristocrats At New One-Year Highs Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Aristocrats are stocks with a history of rising dividends of more than 25 consecutive years and a member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index. The index measures the performance of large cap, blue chip companies within the S&P 500 that have followed a policy of increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. 51 stocks belong to the index and the current year to date performance amounts to 7.49 percent. Dividend Aristocrats are perfect stocks but only eight of them recently crossed new 52-Week highs. 29 stocks from the index are five percent below new highs. That’s a great quality measure of the index.
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