Two Dividend Kings to Buy and Hold Forever

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Two Dividend Kings—stocks with over 50 consecutive years of dividend increases—are highlighted as long-term buys. Payroll processor Automatic Data Processing, with 51 years of dividend growth, is trading more than 25% off its 2025 highs and offers a 2.7% yield, having raised its dividend through past recessions with unemployment as high as 14.8%. Consumer health company Kenvue, spun off from Johnson & Johnson in 2023, inherited Dividend King status and yields 4.3%, while paper products giant Kimberly-Clark, another Dividend King yielding 4.5%, is seeking regulatory approval to merge with Kenvue later this year. If the merger proceeds, Kenvue shareholders would receive $3.50 in cash and roughly one-seventh of a Kimberly-Clark share per Kenvue share, preserving the combined entity’s Dividend King status.

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Consumer Staples▲ · 2 stocks
Kenvue Inc.
KVUE
± MixedRegulationrelevance

Merger with Kimberly-Clark pending regulatory approval; terms include cash and stock exchange.

Consumer Discretionary▲ · 2 stocks
Cloud & Digital Infrastructure▲ · 1 stocks
Automatic Data Processing Inc
ADP
▲ PositiveCapitalrelevance

Highlighted as a Dividend King with 51 years of dividend growth, trading 25% off highs, offering a 2.7% yield.

Biotech & Genomic Medicine▲ · 1 stocks
Artificial Intelligence▲ · 1 stocks
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