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One sign of a healthy dividend stock is that it's able to sustain a history of dividend increases year in and year out, regardless of financial conditions. Procter & Gamble (NYSE
G), 3M (NYSE:MMM), and Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) all have long histories of annual dividend increases that exceed half a century, and when you add up their track records, dividend investors will be ecstatic to see more than 180 years' worth of payout hikes every year among the three of them.
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Full Disclosure.
I own shares of PG and KO.
(No MMM. . sorry.)
One might also google 'Dividend Kings'. For a list of companies
that like to increase the dividends every year for decades.
Johnson and Johnson (JNJ) and Lowes (CL) are in that list.
Along with the aforementioned PG, KO, and MMM.
Zim.
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