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Dividend Kings and the longest dividend streaks
A Dividend King is a company that has raised its dividend every single year for at least fifty years running. Not paid it. Raised it. Every year, without one exception, through whatever the economy happened to be doing at the time.
This page is the longest of those streaks, how many companies clear the fifty year bar, and what the tiers actually mean, because Kings and Aristocrats are two different things and they get mixed up constantly. I put it together for two reasons. A long streak is one of the few pieces of company information that's genuinely hard to fake. And it gets read as a buy signal when it isn't one, which is worth being clear about early. There's also a section on what a seventy year streak actually contains, in terms of the recessions and bear markets it ran through, because the length of these records is hard to feel until you lay the history alongside it. And a section on what the list leaves out, which matters more than what it includes.
The counts here come from two compilers and they don't agree with each other. I've left that visible rather than tidying it away, because the disagreement is part of the story. Both lists are linked at the bottom with the dates they were updated. If you ever quote a Dividend Kings number anywhere, name the compiler alongside it.
There are 58 Dividend Kings, companies that have raised their dividend every year for at least fifty consecutive years. The longest streak belongs to American States Water at 71 years, followed by four companies tied at 70: Northwest Natural, Genuine Parts, Dover and Procter & Gamble. A streak of that length means the company raised its payout through the 1973 to 1974 bear market, the 1987 crash, the dot com collapse, the financial crisis and the 2020 shutdown without a single pause.
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