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Meet the Dividend King That's Quietly Crushing the S&P 500 in 2026. Here's Why It's a Buy This August.

Actually, it's smart to snap it up any time of the year.

Meet the Dividend King That's Quietly Crushing the S&P 500 in 2026. Here's Why It's a Buy This August.

Published August 18, 2026 · Category: Finance

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One of the best blue chip stocks on the market is not only a reliable dividend payer and raiser, it has also crushed the market lately. Shares of the company, which runs a highly profitable and ever-growing business familiar to billions of people, have returned more than 27% this year, almost double the 14.5% of the benchmark S&P 500 index.

Personally speaking, this has been one of my favorite large-cap stocks for years. 

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