Dividend growth champions: 20+ straight years of raises, ranked by how many times over the payout grew
Answered against 22 years of US equities and 12 years of US options data and published with the query that produced it. This result is stored as of 2026-08-22, from Two Decades of Rising Dividends.
| ticker | streak_years | dividend_multiple |
|---|---|---|
| TXN | 21 | 61.9 |
| LOW | 21 | 42.7 |
| MSFT | 21 | 42.5 |
| AIZ | 21 | 23.4 |
| TGT | 21 | 19.7 |
| RHI | 21 | 19.7 |
| LMT | 21 | 19.3 |
| GWW | 21 | 14.7 |
| THG | 20 | 14.6 |
| LHX | 20 | 14.1 |
| MCD | 21 | 13 |
| IBM | 21 | 9.6 |
| PRGO | 20 | 7.1 |
| NOC | 20 | 6.8 |
| ADM | 21 | 6.8 |
| PEP | 21 | 6.6 |
| BDX | 21 | 6.6 |
| SJM | 21 | 5.8 |
| CFR | 21 | 5 |
| JNJ | 21 | 4.7 |
- Rows × columns
- 20 × 3
- Computed
- Completeness
- No missing values
- Source
- US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds
| Column | Type | Range | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
ticker |
text | 20 distinct values (ADM, AIZ, BDX…) | |
streak_years |
number | 20 to 21 | |
dividend_multiple |
number | 4.7 to 61.9 |
Computed from Strasmore's warehouse of US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data. Equity prices are delayed; options greeks and implied volatility are end-of-day. This result is stored, not recomputed on load — it is exactly the numbers that were returned on , and the query below is what returned them.
the exact SQL behind every number
WITH annual AS (
SELECT ticker,
toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS y,
round(sum(cash_amount), 4) AS div
FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
WHERE frequency IN (1, 2, 4, 12)
AND ex_dividend_date >= '2000-01-01'
AND ex_dividend_date < toStartOfYear(today())
GROUP BY ticker, y
),
f AS (
SELECT ticker, y, div,
lagInFrame(div) OVER w AS prev,
lagInFrame(y) OVER w AS prev_y
FROM annual
WINDOW w AS (PARTITION BY ticker ORDER BY y ASC)
),
brk AS (
SELECT ticker, y, div,
(prev IS NULL OR div <= prev OR (y - prev_y) > 1) AS is_break
FROM f
)
SELECT ticker,
max(y) - maxIf(y, is_break) AS streak_years,
round(argMax(div, y) / argMin(div, y), 1) AS dividend_multiple
FROM brk
GROUP BY ticker
HAVING streak_years >= 20 AND max(y) >= toYear(today()) - 2
ORDER BY dividend_multiple DESC
LIMIT 20
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