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Two 100-Year-Old Dow Dividends

By Travis Hoium – Jul 12, 2014 at 3:00PM EST

Procter & Gamble and DuPont have been paying investors just for owning their stocks for over 100 years.

Owning dividend stocks is one of the best ways to beat the market and the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI +0.38%) holds some of the best and longest lasting dividends on the market.

Procter & Gamble (PG 0.73%) and DuPont (DD +0.00%) have both been paying dividends for over 100 years, and are both solid and high-yielding payouts today. Find out more about these dividends, and why they're likely to be around for the next 100 years, in the following slideshow.

Travis Hoium is a contributing Motley Fool stock market analyst covering solar energy, technology, and growth stocks. Before The Motley Fool, Travis was a mechanical engineer at 3M and founded a virtual reality company. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Minnesota.

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