The list of S&P 500 (SPX) Dividend Aristocrats declined from 52 companies in 2009 to 42 in 2010 as many companies cut their dividend payouts. It then held steady in 2011, with three companies being dropped and three added. For 2012, one company has been removed from the index while ten companies have being added. In 2013 one company has been removed and 4 have being added, making a total of 54 dividend aristocrats companies.
2013 changes
Stocks Removed:
- Pitney Bowes Inc. – (PBI)
Stocks Added:
- AbbVie Inc. – (ABBV)
- Chevron Corp. – (CVX)
- Cardinal Health Inc. – (CAH)
- Pentair Ltd. – (PNR)
Here’s the list of dividend aristocrats companies for 2013:
| 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) |
| Franklin Resources (BEN) |
| 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) |
About the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index
The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index (inception 5/2/2005) selects companies in the S&P 500 that have increased their dividends year over year for at least 25 consecutive years. It currently contains 54 companies diversified across the consumer staples, industrials, materials, health care, financials and consumer discretionary sectors. The companies in the index are equal-weighted, rather than weighted by market capitalization. It is reconstituted annually in January and rebalanced in April, July and October.
