4 Battle-Tested Consumer Staples Stocks That Keep Raising Their Dividends

Consumer staples earn their keep in the ugly years, and four names built their reputations by writing bigger dividend checks straight through the two nastiest downturns of the modern era.

The following four dividend stocks all raised their annual payouts across both the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic shock, and their dividend histories back that up on the tape.

This post originally appeared at 24/7 Wall St.