Dividend Aristocrats Outperform in November

A preliminary review of the year to date performance of S&P's Dividend Aristocrats shows they are outperforming the major U.S. domestic indexes. Through the first eleven months of 2008, the Aristocrats have generated a capitalization weighted return of -22.4% versus a -39.0% return for the S&P 500 Index. The return for the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the NASDAQ composite index is -33.4% and -42.1%, respectively.

The spreadsheet below details performance information for each of the Aristocrats. It should be noted the Anheuser-Busch was removed from the S&P 500 Index as of November 18 due to it being acquired by InBev (INBVF.PK).

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Comments

[lony:]

great info - thanks
do you have a similar report for the S&P/TSX Dividend Aristocrats?

2008 Dec 01 08:37 AM

[Anonymous 2:]

It is my undwrstanding that the "new" list of aristocrats will be made public in early December.
From what I understand, a number of the current year listing have not reported their last quarter dividends and thus the jury is still out in terms of all the cuurent list being on next years list. for example BAC and maybe 10 others have reduced their dividends already this year and about 20 have not declared their last quarter div and a few of these may choose to NOT raise and or actually reduce their annual div rate.
With this in mind, "when" do you anticipate being made aware of the "new" listing for next year?
It was my understanding that it would be by the end of this week.
If so, is the list made public through some press release or ??

2008 Dec 01 11:23 AM

[Michael D.:]

For Canadian Dividend Aristocrats, go to S&P's website and search through the index products. Sorry, no link close at hand.

2008 Dec 01 07:01 PM

[Jeff:]

Dear Mr. Templeton,
Where can I search to get the list of S&P's Dividend Aristocrats?
Thank you for your help.
Jeff

2008 Dec 01 08:24 PM

[David I. Te...:]

The S&P website at the below address:

www2.standardandpoors....


On Dec 01 08:24 PM Jeff Herman wrote:

> Dear Mr. Templeton,
> Where can I search to get the list of S&P's Dividend Aristocrats?
>
> Thank you for your help.
> Jeff

2008 Dec 06 04:42 PM