Dividend-growth streak

A dividend-growth streak is the number of consecutive years a company has kept its per-share dividend at least flat or rising.

A dividend-growth streak counts the consecutive years a company has paid a per-share annual dividend that did not decrease. A 25-year streak means the dividend has held steady or grown every year for a quarter century. It is a track record of a durable, shareholder-friendly payout, not a forecast that it will continue.

Long streaks are prized because maintaining them through recessions signals financial discipline and stable cash generation. Companies often manage their dividends specifically to protect a streak, since cutting it tends to be read as a warning sign.

stocks-llm derives streaks from SEC EDGAR XBRL filing data — consecutive non-decreasing per-share annual dividends — so they are grounded in official filings, shown with their as-of context.

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