Dividend streaks

Companies that raised their dividend every year, counted from the payments themselves rather than copied from anyone. The yield tells you what the stock pays today; the growth rate tells you what that payment has been doing. A 6% yield growing 1% a year and a 2% yield growing 12% are opposite bets, and a table that shows only the yield hides exactly that.

Showing 100 of the 170 companies with 20+ straight years of increases, sorted by 10-year dividend growth. Click any column heading to sort by it.

Stock	Years	Yield	Growth 10y	Paid per share	Managers	Market cap
NWNNorthwest Natural Holding Co	24	3.98%

How this is counted, and where it stops

Our payment records start in 1997, so the longest streak we can verify is 28 years. Coca-Cola has raised its dividend for over 60 years; here it shows as 28+, because 28 is as far back as we checked. The plus sign means the company never cut across our entire record.
The count is on the ANNUAL TOTAL per share, not on individual payments. Companies change how often they pay — McDonald's paid once a year from 2000 to 2007 — and counting payments would read that as eight missing years.
Four data repairs, each from a real case: special dividends are excluded from the total, duplicated payments count once, and a payment that lands on the other side of the calendar boundary is moved back where it belongs. What we do not repair is a half payment left by a badly adjusted split — inventing the right number would be inventing data, and the streak comes out shorter than the real one.
The yield is from today's price; the growth rate is from the last full calendar year back. They answer different questions and are measured at different moments.
ETFs and closed-end funds are out, as in every list here: a fund distribution is portfolio proceeds, not profit a company decided to share.

A long streak is history, not a promise. Every company on this list can cut tomorrow, and several that were on lists like this one did — this is research, not investment advice.