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1 Plain-As-Day Dividend King to Buy on the Dip That Has Hiked Its Payout for 70 Consecutive Years

Yahoo Finance · Jun 14, 2026, 5:26 PM

Key takeaways

  • The quarterly payout grew from $0.26 in 1999 to $1.06 in 2026 without a single cut, surviving both the 2008 and 2020 downturns.
  • Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Genuine Parts didn t make the cut.
  • Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) is a stock built to be owned for decades, because its 70 consecutive years of dividend increases were earned by a distribution business whose customers cannot choose to skip the purchase.

The quarterly payout grew from $0.26 in 1999 to $1.06 in 2026 without a single cut, surviving both the 2008 and 2020 downturns.

Act now: the analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 AI stocks — and Genuine Parts didn t make the cut. Grab the names FREE today.

Genuine Parts (NYSE:GPC) is a stock built to be owned for decades, because its 70 consecutive years of dividend increases were earned by a distribution business whose customers cannot choose to skip the purchase. That is the entire forever thesis in one sentence, and the rest of this piece simply unpacks why a retirement-focused investor can set this position aside and let it work.

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