S&P Global (SPGI), the parent company of S&P Dow Jones Indices (maintaining the S&P500 Dividend Aristocrats Index) will raise its quarterly dividend by 10.4 percent to $0.85 per share in 2022. This follows a dividend hike of 14.9 percent to 77 cents per share in 2021 and will mark the 49th consecutive year of annual dividend increases by the Dividend Aristocrat.

The Board of Directors of S&P Global today approved a 10.4% increase in the regular quarterly cash dividend on the Company's common stock over the prior quarter.  The quarterly dividend will increase from $0.77 to $0.85 per share in the second quarter. The dividend of $0.85 is payable on June 10, 2022, to shareholders of record on May 27, 2022. The new annualized dividend rate of $3.40 per share yields 0.9% at a stock price of $375.

S&P Global Inc., formerly McGraw Hill Financial, Inc., is a provider of credit ratings, benchmarks and analytics in the global capital and commodity markets.  The capital markets include asset managers, investment banks, commercial banks, insurance companies, exchanges, trading firms and issuers; and the commodity markets include producers, traders and intermediaries within energy, petrochemicals, metals and agriculture. The company's four reportable segments are: S&P Global Ratings, S&P Global Market Intelligence, S&P Dow Jones Indices and S&P Global Platts. In 2022 S&P Global completed the acquisition of IHS Markit, an approximately $140 billion merger, creating a leading information services provider with a unique portfolio of highly complementary assets. S&P Global has paid a dividend each year since 1937.