# The Dividend King hiding in your medicine cabinet

> Kenvue pays 4.68% and has raised its dividend for 64 straight years, even as a buyout looms.
- Title: The Dividend King hiding in your medicine cabinet | Shortify
- Summary: Kenvue pays 4.68% and has raised its dividend for 64 straight years, even as a buyout looms. Kenvue's yield is backed by 64 years of increases and boring…
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- Source: Yahoo Finance — https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/heres-pick-smartest-high-yield-155000578.html
- Published: 2026-09-14T15:50:00+00:00
- Read time: 1 min
- Topics: dividends, investing, kenvue, healthcare, stocks, business, finance
## A Dividend King in disguise
Kenvue was spun off from Johnson & Johnson only three years ago. Count its years as J&J's consumer health arm and the dividend has risen 64 years running.

> it has increased its dividend for 64 consecutive years
## The yield does the talking
At the current share price Kenvue yields 4.68%. That is more than four times the S&P 500 average and nearly double what the typical Dividend King pays.
## Brands people buy in a slump
Tylenol, Motrin, Listerine, Band-Aid, Neutrogena and Zyrtec are not discretionary purchases. Demand for them holds up whatever the economy is doing.

> sticky, steady consumer demand regardless of macroeconomic cycles
## Slow growth, steady numbers
Second quarter revenue hit $3.95 billion, up 3% year over year, with earnings of $0.24 per share, up 9%. Nobody is calling this a growth stock.
## Kimberly-Clark is buying it
If regulators approve, Kimberly-Clark absorbs Kenvue, which puts a question mark over the dividend. The logic is scale and cost savings across the combined business.
## Either way you get paid
Kimberly-Clark is a Dividend King too, with 54 straight years of increases and a 5.23% yield. Deal or no deal, the income case holds.

> buying Kenvue for the dividend makes sense whether the deal is approved or not
## Key takeaway

Kenvue's yield is backed by 64 years of increases and boring, recession-proof brands, and the Kimberly-Clark deal pairs it with another Dividend King rather than threatening the payout.