A dividend king is a company that has managed to increase dividends to shareholders for at least 50 years in a row.
There are only 47 such companies in the US, and perhaps a couple more in the rest of the world. It is not a small achievement to have been able to reward long-term shareholders with a dividend raise for over half a century.
When I first came up with the idea for the list of dividend kings in 2010, there were only eleven companies on it. Our 2024 list includes 46 companies.
We had two additions and three deletions.
The new additions for the current year include…
This post originally appeared at Dividend Growth Investor.