S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats

Every year Standards and Poors comes out with its S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats. This is a listing of the best dividend stocks from the S&P 500 index. The minimum requires to make the Dividend Aristocrats list are:

• The company must have a minimum market capitalization of $3 billion.
• The stock's average trading volume must be at least $5 million.
• The company must have increased its dividend every year for at least the last 25-years.

There are currently 42 Dividend Stocks in the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats:

MMM 3M Co AFL AFLAC Inc ABT Abbott Laboratories APD Air Products & Chemicals Inc ADM Archer-Daniels-Midland Co ADP Automatic Data Processing BCR Bard, C.R. Inc BDX Becton, Dickinson & Co BMS Bemis Co Inc BF/B Brown-Forman Corp B CTL CenturyLink Inc CB Chubb Corp CINF Cincinnati Financial Corp CTAS Cintas Corp CLX Clorox Co KO Coca-Cola Co ED Consolidated Edison Inc DOV Dover Corp EMR Emerson Electric Co XOM Exxon Mobil Corp FDO Family Dollar Stores Inc GWW Grainger, W.W. Inc TEG Integrys Energy Group Inc JNJ Johnson & Johnson KMB Kimberly-Clark LEG Leggett & Platt LLY Lilly, Eli & Co LOW Lowe's Cos Inc MCD McDonald's Corp MHP McGraw-Hill Cos Inc PPG PPG Industries Inc PEP PepsiCo Inc PBI Pitney Bowes Inc PG Procter & Gamble SHW Sherwin-Williams Co SIAL Sigma-Aldrich Corp SWK Stanley Black & Decker SVU Supervalu Inc TGT Target Corp VFC VF Corp WMT Wal-Mart Stores WAG Walgreen Co