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Total Dividends Paid*
(10 years)

Cash ROI*
(10 years)

10-Year Yield On Cost*

10-Year
Total
Return*

AbbVie spun off from Abbott Labs (ABT) in 2012. The last couple of years ABBV’s DGR has been below 5% so I’m definitely hoping to see some improvement there soon.

The makers of Pedialyte and pacemakers is a dividend legend. They’ve been paying a dividend since 1924. That's a long-ass time. And they have increased their dividend every year for over 50 years (FYI, in 2013 they spun off ABBV and investors got 1 share, so what looks like a div cut really wasn’t.)

Agree Realty is a big box commercial REIT, single net lease landlord to the likes of: WMT, BBY, CVS, DG, Tractor Supply, Hobby Lobby, LOW & HD. If you bought ADC 10 years ago your YOC on those share would be 14%.

ADP has been paying a dividend since 1989. It's DGR is what you want out of every dividend growth stock in your portfolio.

AEP has averaged mid-single digit DGRs since 2005.

AFG is the Top 100 YOC 1st place winner. If you bought $1k of AFG 10 years ago it would have paid you back $1,976 or 197% cash ROI. And your current yield on cost (as of year 10) would be 29.73%. AFG also pays huge specials, and I love specials.

Aflac has been paying a dividend since 1984, that’s 40 freaking years of consecutive dividend compounding aristocratic growth. They even raised the dividends through the darkest days of the GFC. Aflactastic, aristocrastic & dividentastic.

In 2021 Allstate raised the dividend 50%, in 2018 they raised it 25%...can't wait to see the next big dividend bump!

Amgen has been an impressive dividend compounder since 2012, although the last couple of years the DGR has been getting low.

AO Smith’s DGR has been shrinking recently but hopefully it’s settled in the mid-single digits now.

Even the name, Air Products and Chemicals, is so boring I want to fall asleep typing this. But I do love this boring, dividend compounding aristocrat.

You can send thank you cards to Trump and his cohort of flat-earther thugs for giving you this buying opportunity. I'm just not convinced that research and science is dead yet in America. Taking a break, sure. If Alexandria Real Estate can just remain solvent long enough for some adults to come back, then my hope is that my 2025 buying spree of ARE shares will pay off bigly.

Atmos is a natural gas dividend aristocrat with a long DGR history. For the last decade the dividend growth rate has been in the 7-9% range, which is diventacular.

Broadcom's total return for the 10-year period was a whopping 2,886%, and its YOC was 27.75% (2nd place winner!). Nvidia pays a poultry dividend so Broadcom is my surrogate AI chip manufacturer. So please use Google's AI Gemini, Gemma & Imagen! I like AVGO and MSFT for AI exposure.

I’ve picked AMEX over Visa and Mastercard for this spot on the T100. 26%/year annualized 10-year total return is solid. AXP just guided for 17% dividend bump from 2024 to 2025. But will credit cards survive the threat of stablecoin adoption?

BAC is basically trading back close to where it was before the GFC…so definitely a lot of GFC recovery skew in their 10-year total return figure. I’m not sure if BAC will make the cut for the 2026 Top 100 Dividend Stocks list.

iShares = money = dividends = smiley face emoji. Just about everyone who trades or invests has paid BlackRock some money. In fact, BlackRock has one of my largest single holdings: SGOV.

You can thank Broadridge Financial every time you get one of those proxy voting notifications. BR has had a very solid DGR since they started paying dividends in 2007.

BX is our 6th place YOC winner at 16.44%. Blackstone has over $1 trillion in AUM and likes to return dividends to investors. Works for me. On the cautionary side, the dividend payout ratio seems kind of high, but hopefully they can work out that tiny detail.

Citigroup is another bottom quartile stock that I have to do some homework on to see if it makes the cut next year. If they bump the dividend to $0.64/share in August then I’ll keep it on. If it’s only $0.60 then I just don’t know.

Carrier splintered off from RTX in 2020 so it's our youngest dividend stock on the list, so, I'm kind of sticking my neck out here CARR...let's see some double-digit dividend growth!

DE has a better 10-yr return but Caterpillar is, like, everywhere and has been paying a dividend a long long time. Still, the T100 list only needs one of these cats here: DE or CAT?...

CME Group is our 7th highest paying 10-yr YOC at 16.19%. You know the saying "the house always wins", well same here -- Chicago Mercantile Exchange is the casino and every time I sit at the table and I trade options on TOS or Tastytrade they earn a transaction fee. And CME has a lot of different games and plenty of tables to sit at. (No free lunches though with the payout ratio looking steep these days, FYI.)

CNA Financial is the Top 100 overall 3rd place winner with a YOC of 19.72%. CNA pays juicy specials so every mid-February is like Christmas for me.

Conoco's gracious use of the VROC (a special type of special), make it my favorite of the big 3 American oil/gas dividend payers.

Our YOC 5th place winner at 16.59%. Costco has paid out tasty special dividends 4 times in the last 11 years, which are almost as delicious as their roasted chickens, conveniently located as far from the entrance as geometrically possible.

At the time of this writing, CSCO has raised their 2025 dividend by just a penny. Not sure if Cisco will keep this spot on the T100 list going forward.

Cintas has been paying a dividend since 1984, and its 10-year total return is 931%.

Chevron is the 2nd largest driller in the US, behind Exxon…but its DGR is stronger than Exxon's.

DE has a better 10-yr return than CAT. Also compare against AGCO who pays huge specials but whose stock price has suffered since pandemic highs.

Digital Realty has over 300 data centers that should benefit from a long-term AI trend, but if AI flops then so does DLR. DLR has increased its dividend every year since its inception in 2004.

I believe in pizza. Domino's Pizza has had double digit dividend growth rates since 2014. How long can it continue?

Equinix is a data center REIT that serves cloud providers like AWS, Azure and Google. If AI continues to rise, so should EQIX. Equinix had a 10-year total return of over 420% (42%/year) the highest out of all 10 REITS in the Top 100 Dividend Stocks list.

Eversource Energy became a dividend aristocrat in 2025, however it's 10-year total return is pretty dismal at just 4.8%/year, so Eversource could be on the chopping block for next year's T-100 update.

I’ve chosen EXPD over CHRW in this shipping/logistics segment, even though CHRW is a new dividend aristocrat (in 2023), the DGR for EXPD is stronger.

EXR is the Top 100 Dividend Stocks list top YOC REIT and 10th place overall with a 10-yr yield-on-cost of 15.27%. Thank God us Americans love to store our crap in case we ever need it again later!

Diamondback Energy is our 4th place winner with a 10-yr Yield on Cost of 16.99%. Even if I hadn't grown up in Midland/Odessa, I'd still like this Permian Basin driller. Diamondback is one of my wildcat, I mean wild card picks for the Top 100 dividend stocks list.

Factset Research System’s DGR is still strong but definitely slowing down. FDS became a dividend aristocrat in 2025.

Fidelity National Financial benefits from lower interest rates but can still provide dividend growth when rates climb. FNF is a solid dividend compounder.

Corning makes glass for the likes of the Hubble Telescope & the iPhone. GLW’s DGR was stunted from the dotcom era but since 2011 has shown (mostly) promising dividend growth.

GS has been raising their dividends aggressively the last 6 years or so. If they raise by $0.25 in July that will be a 13% dividend bump for 2025.

Home Depot has been growing its dividend since 1987. I have both LOW and HD in the Top 100 dividend list. Love ‘em both.

Huntington Ingalls has the lowest 10-year total return of the 5 defense companies on the T100 list.

Hershey’s stock price has been crushed by rising cacao prices due to cacao crop failures…they hedged prices in 2024 at a huge cost…will it pay off? If so, then Hershey's 2025 low prices may be a value play.

Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) is another dividend compounding fintech.

Intuit is the maker of TurboTax with insane +600% 10-year total return, utterly safe dividend coverage and DOUBLE-DIGIT annual dividend growth rates since it started paying dividends back in 2011.

JNJ is arguably one of the safest long-term "risk-free" dividend stocks on earth, along with Microsoft. In 2023 they spun off KVUE (Kenvue Inc.)

JPMorgan Chase has been an amazing dividend grower recently: 13% in 2024 and it looks like 2025 could be an 18-22% dividend bump.

KLA Corp has had a stringer full of double digit DGR years including (what appears will be) at least 22% dividend growth for 2025.

I'm choosing KO here over PEP, although they are very close.

Kroger started paying a dividend in 1986, paid a ginormous special in 1988, took an 18-year dividend nap then came back with something to prove in 2006. KR has had a spectacular DGR for the last 20 years. Please keep it up Kroger.

Of the 5 defense stocks on the T100 list, L3Harris had the 2nd highest 10-year total return, financed with a nosebleed 25 PE ratio. LHX typically has a very strong DGR history, although the last 3 years (including thru 2025) the DGRs were low-low single digits. When LHX price gets back down closer to $200 I’ll consider picking some up.

Eli Lilly enjoys a weight loss duopoly with rival Novo Nordisk. LLY has been paying a dividend since 1985, and its 10-year total return is a whopping 1,224%...122% per year.

Of the 5 American defense companies included on the Top 100 Dividends Stocks list, Lockheed Martin had the highest 10-year yield-on-cost at 8.51%. LMT DGR is certainly “maturing” down into the mid-single digits, don’t love that.

I like LOW over HD, although sometimes HD has a hotdog stand outside, which is nice. I have both on the T100 list. Trump's fumbling of the economy should create plenty of buying opportunities.

You would think that by now MCD's business would maturing and slowing down, but it's not. Solid top line growth, solid DGR, solid price performance. MCD is just diventacular.

Formerly Kraft Foods, Mondelez sells Oreo cookies in over 100 countries and has 10 straight years of +10% DGRs.

Manulife Financial lost a decade of dividend growth from the GFC, but hopefully back on track now.

Altria knows how to survive and has consistently paid and grown its dividend decade after decade after decade. MO shares bought 10 years ago would have a yield-on-cost of 14.38%.

To be sure, Merck has headwinds and 2025 has been rough on the stock. I picked up a chunk under $80 and if it dips to $70 I could see myself chasing it. Merck really needs their Phase 3 pipeline to play out.

MS and GS are pretty close cousins, in my portfolio I own MS. Morgan Stanley’s DGR has been (on average) over 20% for the last 10 years.

MSCI is a young dividend payer having just started paying a dividend starting in 2014. The DGR rate was extremely high for MSCI until the last 2 years -- going into 2025 the DGR was its lowest ever at just 12.5%. Hopefully the +20% DGR days are not all behind us.

MSFT is arguably one of the safest long-term "risk free" dividend stocks ever. But, you will say, "But the current dividend yield is SO LOW, Tom!" And I will say, "Padawan, if you bought MSFT 10 years ago, your yield on cost would now be over 7%, so shut it."

NDAQ's dividend history isn't as deep as others on the Top 100 dividend stocks list, but it's been a solid dividend grower since 2013.

Nextera Energy is the utility sector's largest single component. NEE has been paying a dividend since 1983 and has had 9 years of +10% DGR. NO Form K-1.

Northop Grumman had the highest 10-year total return on the Top 100 Dividend Stocks list with a total return of 277% (27%/year). NOC raised its dividend 11.68% in 2025 and since 2019 NOC’s DGR has hovered right around 9% on average. Not shabby at all.

The 2nd railroad in the Top 100 dividend stocks list. If I had to pick just one between Norfolk and Union Pacific, I'd have to go with Norfolk, though they are pretty interchangeable if you just want one dividend stock IMO.

Realty Income has the lowest 10-year total return of all 10 other REITS on the Top 100 list. But you are not paying for total return with Realty Income, you are paying for peace of mind – Realty Income has been paying and growing their dividends for over 50 years.

OKE had a dividend growth gap from 2020-2022, but still has a solid history of dividend growth since 2003.

Oracle's dividend growth program has been impressive since 2010. A solid technology dividend play.

PFE has been paying a dividend since 1983 although with a huge GFC reset. Pfizer’s total return is the 2nd lowest on the Top 100 dividend stocks list since the stock has dropped over 50% the last 3 years. Is the dividend going to go away? Or is Pfizer's battered 2025 stock price a screaming deal? Value play or value trap? You know where my chips will be, but can I keep PFE on the 2026 Top100 update?

PG just barely edges out CL Colgate Palmolive for this spot on the Top 100 list. The P&G Company has 69 years of increasing dividends (since 1956) and paying a dividend for 135 years (since 1890).

I think Parker-Hannifin makes THINGS, profitable things. I don't know. But I do know that they are a compounding dividend growth machine.

Prologis is a best-in-class industrial REIT powerhouse. Another dividend growth REIT with a hammered stock price. I am a buyer of PLD in 2025.

PNC had a GFC dividend growth re-set, but since then their DGR has been better than USB (for this spot on the T100)

Primerica started trading in 2010 and immediately started an impressive 14-year run of commanding dividend growth. In 2024, Primerica raised its dividend by almost 27%! That’s diventastic.

I am a buyer of battered dividend growth REITS in 2025 like Rexford Industrial.

Regions Financial is my only regional bank in the Top 100 Dividend stocks list. RFs dividend history has a big GFC gap but with a steady comeback over the last 10 years.

Formerly Raytheon Technologies. In April 2020 they spun off Otis and Carrier. CARR is on my Top 100 list and OTIS is so so so close to being on it. If I was forced to remove one of the 5 defense stocks on the T100 list, it would, sadly, have to be RTX having the lowest 10-yr yield-on-cost at 4.31%.

SBAC’s stock price has been resetting to 2019 levels while the dividend payments continue to rise; SBA Communications started paying dividends in August 2019.

The original discount brokerage company, Schwab has been paying a dividend since 1989. But SCHW’s YOC will grow at 3-legged turtle speed, so don’t expect double-digit yield-on-cost numbers until later this century, and never if you are DCA-ing it.

Richard Nixon was president in 1972 when Snap-on issued its first dividend payment, and they have been paying and raising the dividend (pretty much) ever since then. But the real reason that Snap-on is on the Top 100 Dividend Stocks list is because its DGR has averaged around 15% for the last 12 years.

SPGI is just un-replaceable. Yes, the current yield is low, you just have to get over it and enjoy the insane dividend safety, the healthy DGR and the +500% 10-year total return. Put this one in the trust and pass it along to your heirs.

I was just 8 months old when Sysco Corp paid its first dividend in February 1972. The last 4 years the dividend has only grown low single digits…not exactly what we're looking for going forward SYY..

Target has had a terrible post COVID few years. Will it recover? Will I learn any lessons from my long history of failed conviction retail stocks like K-Mart, Sears & Radio Shack? Yes, I Canada.

T. Rowe Price is an asset management dividend aristocrat that is having a terrible last 4 years. This could be a dividend investors value play of the decade, or it could be a costly value trap. I don't own it, yet, but I'll probably pick some up this year I figure.

Tractor Supply first started paying a dividend in 2010. Since then, they have shown spectacular annual DGRs, although last year it was a much lower 6.8%. Hopefully their power DGR streak isn’t over.

Tyson makes Jimmy Dean breakfast sausage, let's see AI do that. Breakfast aside, I would like to see a little more dividend growth effort here fellas…2%, 3%, 4% per year ain't gonna cut it for too long. TSN could be on the chopping block soon..

My hunch is that TXN's DGR will be slower over the next few years, but I feel like it has staying power.

With a 10-year total return barely treading water, UGI is all about the growing dividend -- which failed to grow in 2024! So what is UGI still doing here on the Top 100 Dividend Stocks list? Will have to look hard at this one for the 2026 updated list.

Unum Group has had some low DGR years 2020-2023, but hopefully they are back on track. God knows they have the coverage for consistent double-digit dividend growth.

Let's not over-complicate things…in Monopoly you win by owning the railroads. Same concept here with Union Pacific Corporation. UNP vs NSC I probably have to pick NSC but it’s close.

No dividend decreases since its inception in 1999, but the 10-year total return for UPS is one of the lowest on the Top 100 Dividend Stocks list. I like UPS slightly better than FedEx.

Without VICI there is no Las Vegas strip and no Great Wolf Lodge. This feels like a wild card addition to the Top 100 dividend stocks list: niche REIT, just listed in 2018, but management sounds committed to the goal of 10-12% annual total return. I fully support that vision.

Valero is the world’s largest independent oil refiner. I believe that long-term crude prices will climb and when they do so will VLO’s profits and (hopefully) dividends.

Like they say, "Clean up your retirement with Waste Management". (Note, no one really says that, but they should.)

Walmart has been paying a dividend since 1974; This is the dividend stock that your great-great-grand kids will still be collecting dividends from. WMT's DGR had been sliding down below 2% the last 10 years unit the big 9% dividend bump last year.

Xcel Energy is another slow and steady dividend grower. The DGR rate has been in the mid-single digits for 20 years now.

Exxon is the largest US oil/gas company, but it's the lowest performing dividend stock out of the other 6 other oil/gas companies on the Top 100 list.

YUM, the company behind Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut has had 20 years of (almost un-interrupted) dividend growth. But is the DG show starting to fade?

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