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Dividend Stock Tips From a BlackRock Expert

By Ben Steverman - 2011-09-15T23:52:35Z

Illustration by Dennis Pacheco

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Consistent Dividend Payouts

Shearer notes with pride that the chemical company DuPont (DD), a holding, recently marked its 428th consecutive quarter of paying a dividend.

Standard & Poor's keeps a list of such "dividend aristocrats," the 42 companies in the S&P 500 that have increased their dividend payout every year for the last 25 years. Many appear in Shearer's fund, including 3M (MMM), Coca-Cola (KO), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), The McGraw-Hill Cos. (MHP), ExxonMobil (XOM), and McDonald's (MCD).

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