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Consecutive years of dividend increases: six long record US payers

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 2026-08-02, from Verizon's Dividend Increase History.

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Consecutive years of dividend increases: six long record US payers — 6 rows by 4 columns, computed from US exchange, SIP and OPRA data.
tickerconsecutive_increase_yearsfirst_year_comparedlast_year_compared
MMM020052025
KO1220042025
MCD1720052025
VZ1920052025
PG2020042025
JNJ2120052025
Rows × columns
6 × 4
Computed
Completeness
No missing values
Source
US exchange, SIP and OPRA market data
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What each column holds

Column definitions for Consecutive years of dividend increases: six long record US payers, derived from the stored result.
ColumnTypeRangeNotes
ticker text 6 distinct values (JNJ, KO, MCD…)
consecutive_increase_years number 0 to 21
first_year_compared text 2 distinct values (2004, 2005)
last_year_compared text 1 distinct value (2025)

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 yearly AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           toYear(ex_dividend_date) AS year,
           max(cash_amount) AS top_amount
    FROM global_markets.stocks_dividends
    WHERE ticker IN ('VZ', 'KO', 'JNJ', 'PG', 'MCD', 'MMM')
      AND distribution_type = 'recurring'
      AND cash_amount > 0
      AND ex_dividend_date >= toDate('2001-01-01')
      AND ex_dividend_date < toDate('2026-01-01')
    GROUP BY ticker, year
),
prior AS (
    SELECT ticker,
           year + 1 AS year,
           top_amount AS prior_top
    FROM yearly
),
flagged AS (
    SELECT yearly.ticker AS ticker,
           year,
           yearly.top_amount > prior.prior_top AS raised
    FROM yearly
    INNER JOIN prior USING (ticker, year)
)
SELECT ticker,
       max(year) - greatest(maxIf(year, raised = 0), min(year) - 1) AS consecutive_increase_years,
       toString(min(year)) AS first_year_compared,
       toString(max(year)) AS last_year_compared
FROM flagged
GROUP BY ticker
ORDER BY consecutive_increase_years ASC, ticker ASC

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