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Dividend aristocrats

Companies with long, unbroken records of raising their dividend. The record is the point: it is evidence, not a promise.

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Dividend yield across the top 12 matches

BATS.L8.0%HSBA.L5.8%SBK.JO5.2%RIO.L6.2%FSR.JO4.5%JNJ3.4%GSK.L4.0%PFE5.9%AZN.L2.2%ULVR.L3.2%AVGO1.2%ABBV3.2%Longer bar is better

Look at the spread, not the ranking. If the bars are all the same length, the screen is arbitrary: one point of dividend yield separates a company that made the list from one that did not, and the cut is doing more work than the data supports. A long tail means the top few are genuinely exceptional and the rest merely qualified.

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What this screen is really buying

Consumer
11
Financials
6
Healthcare
6
Technology
3
Energy
3
Materials
1
Industrials
1
Utilities
1

The matches are spread across sectors, which means the screen is selecting on the characteristic it claims to and not accidentally on an industry.

CompanyPriceRating
BATS.L
British American Tobacco
£31.2066
HSBA.L
HSBC Holdings
£7.1066
SBK.JO
Standard Bank Group
R236.0067
RIO.L
Rio Tinto
£48.2063
FSR.JO
FirstRand
R78.4068
JNJ
Johnson & Johnson
$146.2070
GSK.L
GSK plc
£14.6068
PFE
Pfizer Inc.
$28.3061
AZN.L
AstraZeneca
£105.2072
ULVR.L
Unilever
£46.0069
AVGO
Broadcom Inc.
$1,700.0074
ABBV
AbbVie Inc.
$195.0068
V
Visa Inc.
$272.3075
CVX
Chevron Corp.
$155.0064
PEP
PepsiCo Inc.
$145.0066
MRK
Merck & Co.
$82.0066
KO
Coca-Cola Co.
$63.2067
SHEL.L
Shell plc
£29.1064
HD
Home Depot
$410.0069
DGE.L
Diageo
£24.1066
JPM
JPMorgan Chase
$198.7069
MCD
McDonald's Corp.
$300.0068
TXN
Texas Instruments
$195.0066
XOM
Exxon Mobil
$113.4064
PG
Procter & Gamble
$167.8066
CAT
Caterpillar Inc.
$337.6068
NEE
NextEra Energy
$71.5064
QCOM
Qualcomm Inc.
$165.0066
COST
Costco Wholesale
$900.0070
BAC
Bank of America
$45.0064
WMT
Walmart Inc.
$95.0065
NKE
Nike Inc.
$75.0062

Educational information, not financial advice, and not a recommendation to buy anything. A screen is a place to start reading, never a place to stop.