Should You Own Walmart for Its Dividend King Status or Costco for Its Special Dividend? Here's the Answer.
Walmart offers more consistency with boosting its dividend payouts, but Costco's special dividend is alluring.
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Walmart (NASDAQ: WMT) and Costco Wholesale (NASDAQ: COST) are both recession-resistant businesses, as they offer products people will buy no matter how tight their budgets. They also each reward their shareholders with quarterly dividend payouts, with Walmart's yielding 0.8% and Costco's 0.6%.
That said, each has unique payout characteristics, as Walmart is a Dividend King, having increased its payout for 50 or more consecutive years. In addition to its quarterly dividend payouts, Costco has paid a special dividend every few years.
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