2010 Dividend Aristocrats Down to 43 Stocks
Standard and Poor's added Cintas Corporation (CTAS)
and Brown-Forman Corporation (BF-B)
to its list of Dividend Aristocrats, companies from the S&P 500 index
that have consistently increased dividends for at least 25 consecutive
years.
But the following ten stocks were removed from the list because of dividend
reductions in 2009: Avery Dennison Corporation (AVY),
BB&T Corp. (BBT),
Gannett (GCI),
General Electric (GE),
Johnson Controls (JCI),
Legg Mason (LM),
M&T Bank Corp. (MTB),
Pfizer (PFE), State Street
Corp. (STT)
and US Bancorp (USB).
The 2010 constituents list includes 43 stocks.
For more information about the Dividend Aristocrats, see Dividend
Aristocrats Pay Increasing Dividends.
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Posted December 22, 2009.
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