This Dividend Aristocrat Is Well on Its Way to a ‘Coronation’

This Dividend Aristocrat Is Well on Its Way to a ‘Coronation’

Recently I touched on the several new additions to the S&P Dow Jones Dividend Aristocrats, a group of S&P 500 constituents that have increased their dividends for at least 25 years. Now, I am circling back to the latest dividend payment from an existing Aristocrat: PepsiCo (PEP) .

Widely known for its products that include Pepsi, Lays, Mountain Dew, Doritos, Gatorade, Tropicana, and Aquafina water, the company has been paying consecutive quarterly cash dividends since 1965. Indeed, 2019 marked the company’s 47th consecutive annual dividend increase, which has the company approaching the rarified air of the Dividend Kings. As a reminder, a Dividend King is an S&P 500 company that has increased its dividend for at least 50 consecutive years, an incredible achievement, which explains why there were only 28 such names in 2019.

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Chris Versace, Chief Investment Officer
I'm the Chief Investment Officer of Tematica Research and editor of Tematica Investing newsletter. All of that capitalizes on my near 20 years in the investment industry, nearly all of it breaking down industries and recommending stocks. In that time, I've been ranked an All Star Analyst by Zacks Investment Research and my efforts in analyzing industries, companies and equities have been recognized by both Institutional Investor and Thomson Reuters’ StarMine Monitor. In my travels, I've covered cyclicals, tech and more, which gives me a different vantage point, one that uses not only an ecosystem or food chain perspective, but one that also examines demographics, economics, psychographics and more when formulating my investment views. The question I most often get is "Are you related to…."

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