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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.

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Dividend growth champions: 20+ straight years of raises, ranked by how many times over the payout grew — 20 rows by 3 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerstreak_yearsdividend_multiple
TXN2161.9
LOW2142.7
MSFT2142.5
AIZ2123.4
TGT2119.7
RHI2119.7
LMT2119.3
GWW2114.7
THG2014.6
LHX2014.1
MCD2113
IBM219.6
PRGO207.1
NOC206.8
ADM216.8
PEP216.6
BDX216.6
SJM215.8
CFR215
JNJ214.7
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 definitions for Dividend growth champions: 20+ straight years of raises, ranked by how many times over the payout grew, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
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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