Passive Income Opportunities – Part 4 – Investments In Top Dividend Paying Stocks

Stock and mutual fund dividends rank high as passive income sources. Passive income comes into play automatically as soon as you stake claim to securities that pay dividends. Adding another feather is that the dividends have appreciation potential that ensures inflation is kept in check. This link shows the list of dividend aristocrats (25 consecutive years of increased cash payments) from the S&P 500 index. Below is a list that shows the historical compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of dividends of the companies in the S&P 500-dividend aristocrat index over the 10 years through EOY 2011:

Symbol	Company	Dividend CAGR
MMM	3M Co	6.1
ABT	Abbott Laboratories	9.18
MO	Altria Group	6.49
BUD	Anheuser-Busch Cos	9.76
ADM	Archer-Daniels-Midland	10.84
ADP	Automatic Data Proc	13.25
AVY	Avery Dennison Corp	6.66
BAC	Bank of America	12.91
BCR	Bard (C.R.)	5.24
BBT	BB&T Corp	10.15
BDX	Becton Dickinson	12.95
CTL	CenturyTel Inc	4.69
CB	Chubb Corp	7.18
CINF	Cincinnati Financial	11.09
CLX	Clorox Co	9.6
KO	Coca-Cola Co	9.28
CMA	Comerica Inc	8.36
ED	Consolidated Edison	1.00
DOV	Dover Corp	7.73
EMR	Emerson Electric	5.93
FDO	Family Dollar Stores	11.14
FITB	Fifth Third Bancorp	15.69
FHN	First Horizon Natl	10.55
GCI	Gannett Co	7.73
GE	Genl Electric	10.84
GWW	Grainger (W.W.)	10
JNJ	Johnson & Johnson	14.2
JCI	Johnson Controls	11.12
KEY	KeyCorp	5.68
KMB	Kimberly-Clark	8.24
LEG	Leggett & Platt	9.9
LLY	Lilly (Eli)	7.83
LOW	Lowe's Cos	27.77
MTB	M&T Bank	24.22
MCD	McDonald's Corp	19.74
MHP	McGraw-Hill Companies	8.58
NUE	Nucor Corp	37.64
PEP	PepsiCo Inc	11.61
PFE	Pfizer Inc	16.44
PPG	PPG Indus	4.34
PG	Procter & Gamble	10.73
PGR	Progressive Corp	5.82
STR	Questar Corp	4.51
RF	Regions Financial	8.31
ROH	Rohm & Haas	8.3
SHW	Sherwin-Williams	12.16
SIAL	Sigma-Aldrich	13.11
SLM	SLM Corp	18.27
SWK	Stanley Works	4.48
STT	State Street Corp	13.87
SVU	Supervalu Inc	2.72
SNV	Synovus Financial	13.07
TGT	Target Corp	12.02
USB	U.S. Bancorp	12.56
VFC	VF Corp	10.65
WMT	Wal-Mart Stores	22
WAG	Walgreen Co	11.74
WWY	Wrigley (Wm) Jr	5.33

• Inflation rate over the 10 years through 2011 is under 3%. The list shows dividend growth outperforming inflation by a wide margin for most companies.

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Last Updated: 01/2015.