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A Dividend Aristocrat is a term used to describe a company that continuously raises its dividend payout year on year for shareholders. Typically with a time line of about 25 years. For the sake of easy reference, I reduce my time line to five years and filtered all reits in SGX to DPS CAGR of 5 years. This metric tells us the annual growth rate in dividend per share over a five years period(computed to a steady rate). I added two more criteria: Net debt to equity less than 0.5x and Dividend yield more than 5%. As we do not want high net debt or low div payout counters that does that. The result showed 7 reits with positive DPS CAGR of 5 years. Three reits were ......