BP (BP) - Founded in 1909 in Iran, BP is now a London-based oil and gas company, and the largest in this comparison, with a market cap of $133.9 billion, and trading at 7.83 times earnings.
BP, which still has not fully recovered from the infamous Deepwater Horizon disaster, has still managed to average a 7.4% gain over the past 20 years.
BP only started paying regular dividends in 2000, starting at 33 cents quarterly, and raising them consistently to 84 cents in 2010, before being forced to cut dividends in half after the disaster.
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