The Highest-Quality Dividend Challengers By Quality Scores

The article presents the highest-quality Dividend Contenders, companies listed on U.S. exchanges with higher annual dividend payouts for 10-24 consecutive years.

It is the third of three articles covering the highest-quality Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers by Quality Scores.

I use a quality scoring system with six quality indicators, each worth five points, for a maximum score of 30. The highest-quality Dividend Challengers score four or five points for each quality indicator.

Only 11 of 226 Dividend Challengers made the list of highest-quality Dividend Challengers, with Applied Materials (AMAT) bragging rights as the highest-quality Dividend Challenger in 2025.

I own three of these stocks in my DivGro portfolio.

Please read this article at Seeking Alpha to review my highest-quality Dividend Challengers.

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