Stockpickr: The Top Dividend 'Aristocrats'

Jim Cramer recently featured the S&P Dividend Aristocrats on his "Mad Money" TV show. This Stockpickr portfolio consists of S&P 500 companies that have increased their dividends every year for the past 25 years.

These names offer investors big rewards, because what starts off, perhaps, as a 1% yield when you first buy the stock could end up becoming a yield of 20% or more when compared with your initial purchase costs.

The fact that these companies have increased their dividends every year for the past 25 years gives you a significant margin of safety.

Of course there are no guarantees, but chances are these are well-managed companies with increasing cash flows and reason to believe they'll increase those dividends in the future. ...