Dividend Aristocrats List 2026: All the Stocks Ranked by Yield
Editorial Staff, reviewed November 2, 2026
The Dividend Aristocrats are S&P 500 companies that have raised their dividends every year for at least 25 years. ProShares reports 69 holdings in the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index as of September 30, 2026, and the 68 stock positions its NOBL fund listed on October 30, 2026 are ranked below by yield.
What makes a Dividend Aristocrat
S&P Dow Jones Indices runs the index, and three things define membership: the company is in the S&P 500, it has raised its dividend each year for at least 25 years, and the index keeps enough names. ProShares notes that if fewer than 40 stocks meet the criteria, the index may include companies with shorter histories.
We take membership from the fund that tracks the index, because S&P's own pages refused our check. The count of 68 against 69 is a difference between two source dates and we can't say which company accounts for it, so treat the list as very close and check NOBL's page for today's holdings. Our own payment records reach back only about six years, so they can't confirm any 25-year streak and these yields are the only part we compute.
Dividend Aristocrats list, ranked by current yield
The highest yield here is O at 5.66% and the lowest is WST at 0.22%. Yield uses each company's recent payment rate and the Nov 3, 2026 close.
| Ticker | Company | Yield | 5-year raises |
|---|---|---|---|
| O | Realty Income Corporation | 5.66% | 2.9% |
| AMCR | Amcor plc Ordinary Shares | 5.54% | 2% |
| HRL | Hormel Foods Corporation | 5.50% | 3.6% |
| CLX | Clorox Company | 5.33% | 1.9% |
| KMB | Kimberly-Clark Corp. | 4.90% | 2.6% |
| TROW | T Rowe Price Group Inc | 4.90% | 4.5% |
| ES | Eversource Energy | 4.56% | 5.6% |
| PEP | PepsiCo, Inc. | 4.31% | 6.7% |
| FRT | Federal Realty Investment Trust | 4.16% | |
| BEN | Franklin Templeton, Inc. | 4.08% | 3.3% |
| MKC | McCormick & Company, Incorporated Non-VTG CS | 4.01% | 7.1% |
| ESS | Essex Property Trust, Inc | 3.91% | 4.4% |
| SJM | The J.M. Smucker Company | 3.50% | 3.7% |
| GPC | Genuine Parts Company | 3.42% | 5.4% |
| SWK | Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. | 3.21% | 2.9% |
| BF.B | Brown-Forman Corporation Class B | 3.19% | 5.2% |
| CVX | Chevron Corporation | 3.16% | 6% |
| ED | Consolidated Edison, Inc. | 3.04% | 2.6% |
| TGT | Target Corporation | 3.01% | 9.3% |
| SYY | Sysco Corporation | 2.97% | 3.4% |
| NEE | NextEra Energy, Inc. | 2.96% | 10.1% |
| ADM | Archer Daniels Midland Company | 2.95% | 7.1% |
| MDT | Medtronic plc | 2.91% | 3.4% |
| MCD | McDonald's Corporation | 2.83% | 7.6% |
| IBM | International Business Machines Corporation | 2.70% | 1.5% |
| PG | Procter & Gamble Company | 2.69% | 4.9% |
| PPG | PPG Industries, Inc. | 2.44% | 5.4% |
| ABBV | ABBVIE INC. | 2.42% | 5.9% |
| ITW | Illinois Tool Works Inc. | 2.40% | 7.1% |
| AOS | A.O. Smith Corporation | 2.38% | 6.6% |
| LOW | Lowe's Companies Inc. | 2.34% | 11.8% |
| XOM | ExxonMobil Holdings Corporation | 2.32% | 3.4% |
| APD | Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. | 2.31% | 4.3% |
| ABT | Abbott Laboratories | 2.30% | 7% |
| ATO | Atmos Energy Corporation | 2.30% | 9.9% |
| ADP | Automatic Data Processing | 2.30% | 12.8% |
| KO | Coca-Cola Company | 2.24% | 4.7% |
| CL | Colgate-Palmolive Company | 2.22% | 3.3% |
| ERIE | Erie Indemnity Co | 2.17% | 7.2% |
| BDX | Becton, Dickinson and Co. | 2.12% | 4.8% |
| CINF | Cincinnati Financial Corp | 2.04% | 8.2% |
| JNJ | Johnson & Johnson | 2.01% | 5% |
| FAST | Fastenal Co | 1.99% | 12.3% |
| AFL | Aflac Inc. | 1.97% | 13.7% |
| CHRW | C.H. Robinson Worldwide, Inc. | 1.89% | 4.3% |
| ALB | Albemarle Corporation | 1.82% | 0.9% |
| GD | General Dynamics Corporation | 1.70% | 6.1% |
| PNR | Pentair plc | 1.55% | 6.2% |
| FDS | Factset Research Systems | 1.40% | 7.3% |
| EMR | Emerson Electric Co. | 1.33% | 1.9% |
| LIN | Linde plc Ordinary Share | 1.25% | 8.7% |
| NDSN | Nordson Corp | 1.14% | 15.1% |
| CHD | Church & Dwight Co., Inc. | 1.13% | 4.1% |
| CB | Chubb Limited | 1.11% | 4.7% |
| CAT | Caterpillar Inc. | 1.04% | 8% |
| BRO | Brown & Brown, Inc. | 1.02% | 12.2% |
| DOV | Dover Corporation | 0.98% | 1% |
| ECL | Ecolab, Inc. | 0.96% | 8.7% |
| SHW | The Sherwin-Williams Company | 0.94% | 8.8% |
| CTAS | Cintas Corp | 0.93% | 4.6% |
| SPGI | S&P Global Inc. | 0.83% | 5.4% |
| NUE | Nucor Corporation | 0.82% | 6.7% |
| CAH | Cardinal Health, Inc. | 0.82% | 1% |
| WMT | Walmart Inc. Common Stock | 0.79% | 6% |
| EXPD | Expeditors International of Washington, Inc. | 0.79% | 7.5% |
| ROP | Roper Technologies, Inc. Common Stock | 0.77% | 10.1% |
| GWW | W.W. Grainger, Inc. | 0.71% | 8.6% |
| WST | West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc. | 0.22% | 5.3% |
The 5-year column is the compound yearly change in regular payments on our record. A long streak doesn't require large raises, and a raise of one cent counts.
How companies leave the list
A cut ends a streak. 3M isn't among NOBL's listed holdings, and our record shows its quarterly payment falling from $1.26 to $0.70 with the May 23, 2024 ex-date. Our record shows the fall and not the reason for it, and an old record of raises can end for reasons a dividend history doesn't explain.
How to use this list
The list tells you about past behavior: these boards have kept raising their payments for decades. It doesn't say a stock is cheap, or that the next raise is coming. Treat it as a place to start reading, and open each ticker page to see how large the recent raises were.
Sources
Checked on November 2, 2026. Tax rules and fund rules change, so check the current version before you act.
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This is general education and not tax or investment advice. Securities named here illustrate the arithmetic and are not suggestions. See the disclaimer.