5 Dividend Stocks for the Next 50 Years (from fool)

If you're looking for financially secure companies, there's no better indicator than a long history of paying dividends to shareholders. And despite all the turmoil that the markets have seen over the past couple of years, several companies have managed to keep long-standing streaks of rising dividend payments intact.


Stock
Current Dividend Yield
Streak of Annual Dividend Increases

Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG)
2.8%
53 years

Emerson Electric (NYSE: EMR)
2.8%
53 years

3M (NYSE: MMM)
2.6%
51 years

Diebold (NYSE: DBD)
3.7%
57 years

Dover (NYSE: DOV)
2.3%
54 years



5 Dividend Stocks for the Next 50 Years By Dan Caplinger
February 19, 2010 | Comments (36)