The S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats is a list of large cap, blue chip companies within the S&P 500 that have followed a policy of increasing dividends every year for at least 25 consecutive years. They are an excellent selection of stocks to start diversifying into when building your own portfolio of dividend stocks.

However, the list is limited to American stocks. Make sure to have a look also at dividend stocks from other countries. The European Dividend Aristocrats, dividend stocks analyses and the dividend calendar are good places to start.

3M Co (MMM)
AFLAC Inc (AFL)
Abbott Laboratories (ABT)
Air Products & Chemicals Inc (APD)
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co (ADM)
Automatic Data Processing (ADP)
Bard, C.R. Inc (BCR)
Becton, Dickinson & Co (BDX)
Bemis Co Inc (BMS)
Brown-Forman (BF.B)
Centurytel Inc (CTL)
Chubb Corp (CB)
Cincinnati Financial Corp (CINF)
Cintas (CTAS)
Clorox Co (CLX)
Coca-Cola Co (KO)
Consolidated Edison Inc (ED)
Dover Corp (DOV)
Emerson Electric Co (EMR)
Exxon Mobil Corp (XOM)
Family Dollar Stores Inc (FDO)
Grainger, W.W. Inc (GWW)
Integrys Energy Group Inc (TEG)
Johnson & Johnson (JNJ)
Kimberly-Clark (KMB)
Leggett & Platt (LEG)
Lilly, Eli & Co (LLY)
Lowe’s Cos Inc (LOW)
McDonald’s Corp (MCD)
McGraw-Hill Cos Inc (MHP)
PPG Industries Inc (PPG)
PepsiCo Inc (PEP)
Pitney Bowes Inc (PBI)
Procter & Gamble (PG)
Questar Corp (STR)
Sherwin-Williams Co (SHW)
Sigma-Aldrich Corp (SIAL)
Stanley Works (SWK)
Supervalu Inc (SVU)
Target Corp (TGT)
VF Corp (VFC)
Wal-Mart Stores (WMT)
Walgreen Co (WAG)