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Data. Yahoo Finance's full ex-dividend history for every S&P 500 company (sector and name come from Sector Beeswarm), summed into a calendar-year total per company. Summing by calendar year works the same whether a company pays quarterly, semi-annually or has changed its schedule. Companies with fewer than 3 full calendar years of dividend history, or no dividend, are excluded. This page only screens payers.
Metrics. Three numbers come from each company's yearly totals. The streak counts consecutive calendar years, going back from the most recent, where the total was higher than the year before. It's the same idea as the "Dividend Aristocrat" label, though this page doesn't apply that label's 25-year threshold. The 5-year CAGR is the compound annual growth rate of the annual total over the most recent 5 full years (fewer if the company has less history, as long as it has at least 3). The latest YoY growth is the most recent full year's total vs. the year before. A gap year (a suspended and later resumed payment) breaks a streak.
The current calendar year is excluded from every calculation, since a partial year would understate growth or show a false "cut." One caveat this page doesn't correct for: a one-time special dividend lands in the year it was paid and can make that year's growth rate (and a multi-year CAGR, if large enough) look higher than the ordinary payout actually grew. Treat an unusually large single-year figure with that in mind.
Sector figures are the equal-weighted mean across that sector's qualifying payers (a simple headcount for the "5+ year growers" count), not cap-weighted. The market-wide trend line takes the median year-over-year growth rate each calendar year among payers with data in both that year and the one before, and plots a year only once at least 30 payers have data for it. The median keeps one special-dividend year from swinging the line.
Recomputed weekly (Saturday) across all ~500 constituents. Yahoo Finance returns a company's whole dividend history in one call, so every chart is recomputed from full history each run, with no page history to accumulate (same as Earnings Surprise History).