1 Unstoppable Dividend King Up 3,600% Since 2000 to Add to Your Portfolio for a Lifetime of Passive Income

2025-11-23 20:11:00 ET

If you are familiar with Dividend Kings and even own one or more of them in your portfolio, you're already one step ahead of the income investors who mainly chase dividend yields and pay little attention to dividend growth. But if you haven't heard about the unstoppable Dividend King stock that I'll tell you about next, I don't blame you. It's not a popular name, but it has quietly made investors extremely wealthy over the years.

Before I reveal the name, it's important to reiterate why Dividend Kings are often such powerful wealth compounders. Although many stocks within the S&P 500 and elsewhere pay dividends, some also regularly increase their dividend payments. Among these dividend growth stocks , there's a small, elite group of stocks, known as the Dividend Kings, that have increased their dividend payouts every year for at least 50 consecutive years.

It's hard to imagine the magnitude of a difference those 50-plus years of dividend growth can make to a stock's total returns over the years until you own a stock that does just that. Case in point: Parker-Hannifin (NYSE: PH) .

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