S&P Dow Jones Indices defines the dividend aristocrats as the companies included in the benchmark S&P 500 (SPX) that have raised their dividend payouts every year for at least 25 years. A high dividend yield is not required.
These are large, blue chip companies that have historically provided (slightly) better performance and (slightly) lower volatility than the S&P 500 as a whole.
Rebalancing January 2015
S&P Dow Jones Indices today announced the annual rebalancing results for the S&P500 Dividend Aristocrats Index. These changes will be effective after the close of business on January 30, 2015. No additions, deletions: Family Dollar Stores Inc, ticker FDO.
The 52 Dividend Aristocrats in the S&P 500 as of January 30, 2015 are:
| Company (Ticker) |
|---|
| 3M Co (MMM) |
| Abbott Laboratories (ABT) |
| AbbVie Inc (ABBV) |
| AFLAC Inc (AFL) |
| Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD) |
| Archer-Daniels-Midland Co (ADM) |
| AT&T (T) |
| Automatic Data Processing (ADP) |
| Bard, C.R. Inc (BCR) |
| Becton, Dickinson & Co (BDX) |
| Bemis Co Inc (BMS) |
| Brown-Forman Corp B (BF/B) |
| Cardinal Health Inc. (CAH) |
| Chevron Corp (CVX) |
| Chubb Corp (CB) |
| Cincinnati Financial Corp (CINF) |
| Cintas Corp (CTAS) |
| Clorox Co (CLX) |
| Coca-Cola Co (KO) |
| Colgate-Palmolive (CL) |
| Consolidated Edison Inc (ED) |
| Dover Corp (DOV) |
| Ecolab Inc (ECL) |
| Emerson Electric Co (EMR) |
| Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM) |
| Family Dollar Stores Inc (FDO) |
| Genuine Parts (GPC) |
| Grainger, W.W. Inc (GWW) |
| HCP (HCP) |
| Hormel Foods Corp (HRL) |
| Illinois Tool Works (ITW) |
| Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) |
| Kimberly-Clark (KMB) |
| Leggett & Platt (LEG) |
| Lowe’s Cos Inc (LOW) |
| McCormick & Co (MKC) |
| McDonald’s Corp (MCD) |
| McGraw-Hill Cos Inc (MHP) |
| Medtronic (MDT) |
| Nucor (NUE) |
| Pentair Ltd. (PNR) |
| PepsiCo Inc (PEP) |
| PPG Industries Inc (PPG) |
| Procter & Gamble (PG) |
| Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW) |
| Sigma-Aldrich Corp (SIAL) |
| Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) |
| Sysco (SYY) |
| T. Rowe Price Group (TROW) |
| Target Corp (TGT) |
| VF Corp (VFC) |
| Walgreen Co (WAG) |
| Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) |
