Chris Lange
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PG and JNJ have raised dividends for 70 and 64 straight years, each generating roughly $16 to $20 billion in annual free cash flow with near-bond-like volatility.
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EMR’s free cash flow surged 35% year over year, while GPC delivers the group’s highest yield at 3.09% but a planned 2027 company split could reshape its dividend policy.
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Dividend Kings, the elite group of US companies with at least 50 consecutive years of annual dividend increases, are the closest thing income investors get to a buy-once-and-forget holding. The bar is brutal: recessions, wars, oil shocks, pandemics, and management changes all had to be survived without a single missed raise. Consider Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG), whose latest board action marked the 70th consecutive year of dividend increases and 136th consecutive year of dividend payments. Five names anchor this list, each with a payout backed by real cash flow rather than balance-sheet trickery.
Procter & Gamble (PG)
P&G currently yields 2.99% on a forward annualized dividend of $4.354 per share, with the most recent quarterly payment of $1.0885 paid August 17, 2026.
Fiscal 2026 free cash flow reached $15.84 billion, up 12.74% year over year, on operating cash flow of $19.56 billion. Against that, P&G plans roughly $10 billion in dividends and $5 billion in buybacks in FY2027, so free cash flow covers the payout with room to spare. The balance sheet holds $9.94 billion in cash against $54.31 billion of shareholders’ equity, and the dividend streak is the longest on this list at 70 straight years.
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The bull case for income investors is boring in the best way: soap, razors, diapers, and detergent generate durable cash across cycles, and a beta of 0.377 means the stock moves far less than the market during drawdowns. Guidance calls for core EPS in-line to +3% versus FY2026’s $6.89 base, enough to keep raises coming.
