Top 50 High-Quality Dividend Stocks For July 2025

Summary

• I track 50 high-quality dividend growth stocks to identify opportune investments, updating valuation ratings daily to focus on attractive opportunities.
• In this turbulent year, my investable universe kept up with SPY and outperformed SCHD year-to-date, with a gain of 5.63% compared to 5.72% and -2.13%.
• This month, 18 stocks had valuation rating changes; 5 were upgrades, including Paychex with an attractive expected return.
• My goal is to focus on high-quality businesses with strong track records, attractive valuations, and desirable future rates of return.

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High-Quality Dividend Stock Investable Universe

On September 1, 2024, I started tracking an investable universe of what I believe to be 50 high-quality dividend growth stocks. You can find out more about the formation of this investable universe

Analyst’s Disclosure:I/we have a beneficial long position in the shares of aapl, acn, alle, amat, aph, ctas, dpz, eog, fast, fds, hd, hsy, klac, lly, lrcx, ma, mktx, mli, mpwr, msci, msft,nke, ntes, odfl, rol, sbux, tjx, tsco, v, wsm, wso, wst, zts either through stock ownership, options, or other derivatives. I wrote this article myself, and it expresses my own opinions. I am not receiving compensation for it (other than from Seeking Alpha). I have no business relationship with any company whose stock is mentioned in this article.