The Highest-Quality Dividend Contenders By Quality Scores

FerdiS
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Summary

  • The article presents the highest-quality Dividend Contenders, companies listed on U.S. exchanges with higher annual dividend payouts for 10-24 consecutive years.
  • I use a quality scoring system with six quality indicators, each worth five points, for a maximum score of 30.
  • The highest-quality Dividend Contenders score four or five points for each quality indicator.
  • Only 18 of 361 Dividend Contenders made the list of highest-quality Dividend Contenders, with Microsoft, Visa, and Mastercard earning bragging rights as the highest-quality Dividend Contenders in 2025.
  • This is the second of three articles covering the highest-quality Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers by Quality Scores.

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The late David Fish classified dividend growth [DG] stocks by the length of their dividend increase streaks. Dividend Champions have dividend increase streaks of at least 25 years, compared with Dividend Contenders (10–24 years) and Dividend Challengers (5-9 years).

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FerdiS invests in dividend growth stocks and writes options to boost dividend income. He manages DivGro, a portfolio of mainly dividend growth stocks created in January 2013. He tracks his portfolio at DivGro-2-0.com. With investment and trading experience spanning more than 20 years, FerdiS enjoys writing articles about dividend growth investing, options trading, stock selection, portfolio management, and passive income generation. FerdiS collaborates with the founders of Portfolio Insight, an online platform for portfolio management and investment analysis. We maintain and publish Dividend Radar, a weekly free spreadsheet of dividend growth stocks.

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