Dividend Kings of 2025

Get a list of current -- and potential future -- Dividend Kings and learn how to leverage these strong companies to build wealth.

By Adam Levy – Updated Oct 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM | Fact-checked by Frank Bass

Key Points

Dividend Kings are stocks that have increased dividends for at least 50 years.
Investing in Dividend Kings offers stable and potentially growing dividends.
They are suitable for portfolios focused on reliable income.

Dividend Kings have a long history of delivering market-beating returns for investors and proving to be generally steady, safe holdings. A Dividend King is a company that's grown its dividend payment for at least 50 consecutive years.

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Dividend Aristocrats versus Dividend Kings comes down to 25 years versus 50 years of increased dividend payments to investors. — Image source: The Motley Fool.

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Data sources: Company press releases, presentations, and SEC filings. *Spinoff of Johnson & Johnson, retains dividend streak. **Pays a base $0.09 cash quarterly dividend plus a 3% stock dividend, so "growth" is open to interpretation. ***Dividends are paid in Canadian dollars and can vary for U.S. investors due to exchange rates. ****Spinoff of Abbott, retains dividend streak.
Dividend King	Sector	Dividend Increase Streak
American States Water (NYSE:AWR)	Utilities	71
Dover Corporation (NYSE:DOV)	Industrials	70
Northwest Natural Holdings (NYSE:NWN)	Utilities	70
Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC)	Consumer Goods	69
Parker-Hannifin (NYSE:PH)	Industrials	69
Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG)	Consumer Goods	69
Emerson Electric (NYSE:EMR)	Industrials	67
Cincinnati Financial (NASDAQ:CINF)	Financials	64
Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO)	Consumer Goods	63
Kenvue (NYSE:KVUE)	Consumer Goods	63*
Marzetti (NASDAQ:MZTI)	Consumer Goods	62
Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE:CL)	Consumer Goods	62
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)	Healthcare	62
Nordson (NASDAQ:NDSN)	Industrials	62
Illinois Tool Works (NYSE:ITW)	Industrials	62
Farmers & Merchants Bancorp (OTC:FMCB)	Financials	60
Hormel Foods (NYSE:HRL)	Consumer Goods	59
California Water Service Group (NYSE:CWT)	Utilities	58
Federal Realty Investment Trust (NYSE:FRT)	Real Estate	58
Tootsie Roll Industries (NYSE:TR)	Consumer Goods	58**
Stanley Black & Decker (NYSE:SWK)	Industrials	58
ABM Industries (NYSE:ABM)	Industrials	58
Commerce Bancshares (NASDAQ:CBSH)	Financials	57
SJW Group (NASDAQ:SJW)	Utilities	57
Stepan (NYSE:SCL)	Industrials	57
H.B. Fuller (NYSE:FUL)	Materials	56
Altria Group (NYSE:MO)	Consumer Goods	56
Black Hills Corp. (NYSE:BKH)	Utilities	55
National Fuel Gas (NYSE:NFG)	Energy	55
Universal Corporation (NYSE:UVV)	Consumer Goods	55
MSA Safety (NYSE:MSA)	Industrials	55
Sysco (NYSE:SYY)	Consumer Goods	55
Lowe's (NYSE:LOW)	Consumer Goods	54
Target (NYSE:TGT)	Consumer Goods	54
W.W. Grainger (NYSE:GWW)	Industrials	54
PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG)	Industrials	54
ADM (NYSE:ADM)	Industrials	53
Kimberly-Clark (NASDAQ:KMB)	Consumer Goods	53
Canadian Utilities (OTC:CDUAF)	Utilities	53***
Abbott (NYSE:ABT)	Healthcare	53
BD (NYSE:BDX)	Healthcare	53
Tennant (NYSE:TNC)	Industrials	53
AbbVie (NYSE:ABBV)	Healthcare	53****
PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP)	Consumer Goods	53
Walmart (NYSE:WMT)	Consumer Goods	52
S&P Global (NYSE:SPGI)	Financials	52
Consolidated Edison (NYSE:ED)	Utilities	52
Nucor (NYSE:NUE)	Industrials	52
The Gorman-Rupp Company (NYSE:GRC)	Industrials	52
Middlesex Water (NASDAQ:MSEX)	Utilities	52
RPM International (NYSE:RPM)	Industrials	51
Fortis (NYSE:FTS)	Utilities	51
United Bankshares (NASDAQ:UBSI)	Financials	51
RLI Corp. (NYSE:RLI)	Financials	50
Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ:ADP)	Technology	50
MGE Energy (NASDAQ:MGEE)	Utilities	50

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Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

A chief executive officer, or CEO, is in charge of running the day-to-day operations of an organization.

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Canadian Utilities is certainly a King if you're a Canadian investor; however, the changes in foreign exchange rates have made the effective dividend paid to U.S. investors fall at times in the past. We don't want to shortchange the company or our Canadian investors because of this. The dividends per share -- in Canadian dollars -- have indeed increased for 53 years in a row.

Tootsie Roll is a little more complex. To start, the company has a long history of paying a dividend, but the $0.09 quarterly cash portion of the dividend has remained unchanged for years. Its payout has grown via the 3% stock dividend it also pays every year for the past six decades. So as long as the stock price increases in value, the total dividends paid grow. We thought this quirk was worth explaining in detail; it can be argued that maybe it isn't a King, but certainly worthy of consideration for dividend investors.

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Ticker Information Table
Name and ticker	Market cap	Dividend yield	Industry
Target (NYSE:TGT)	$40.9 billion	5.00%	Food and Staples Retailing
Altria Group (NYSE:MO)	$96.2 billion	7.19%	Tobacco
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ)	$450.2 billion	2.72%	Pharmaceuticals

Data as of Nov 5, 2025.

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1. Target

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NYSE: TGT

Target

Today's Change

(2.78%) $2.50

Current Price

$92.48

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$41B

Day's Range

$89.02 - $93.26

52wk Range

$85.36 - $158.42

Volume

Avg Vol

8.1M

Gross Margin

25.43%

Dividend Yield

0.05%

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2. Altria

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NYSE: MO

Altria Group

Today's Change

(-0.42%) $-0.24

Current Price

$57.07

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$96B

Day's Range

$56.89 - $58.15

52wk Range

$50.08 - $68.60

Volume

288K

Avg Vol

8.2M

Gross Margin

71.98%

Dividend Yield

0.07%

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3. Johnson & Johnson

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NYSE: JNJ

Johnson & Johnson

Today's Change

(-0.56%) $-1.04

Current Price

$185.82

Key Data Points

Market Cap

$450B

Day's Range

$185.54 - $187.80

52wk Range

$140.68 - $194.48

Volume

97K

Avg Vol

8.4M

Gross Margin

68.27%

Dividend Yield

0.03%

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Another Dividend King that's gone through a tumultuous past several years is Johnson & Johnson (J&J). However, the healthcare giant could emerge as a winning stock this year. To start, today's J&J is a more streamlined business, having divested Kenvue, its consumer products business, in 2023. Now, the company is focused on pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and technology exclusively.

Over the past few years, J&J stock hasn't made for a great investment, even with dividend growth, with paltry returns from 2022 through 2024. However, despite the disappointing return in recent years, the five- and 10-year returns are considerably better, even with the recent weakness. With the company now lean and focused on its core pharma and medical devices businesses, 2025 is proving to be a bounce-back year, with 34.6% in total returns this year through mid-October.

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