Highest Quality Dividend Kings For 2025

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Summary

  • Only 11 Dividend Kings outperformed the S&P 500 during the last decade based on Total Return.
  • 5 Dividend Kings earn the rank of "High Quality" based on my custom quantitative model.
  • Using a variation of a truncated custom quality score could have generated a total return nearly double that of the S&P 500 during the last 9 years.
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Dividend Kings

One of the highest achievements a dividend growth stock can attain is the status of a Dividend King. To reach this milestone, a company must increase its annual dividend payout for 50 consecutive years. That is not an easy feat to

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