Although many ASX investors have a preference when it comes to prioritising capital growth or dividend income from their ASX shares, I often say that the best ASX shares offer both. After all, a company can only afford to pay a rising dividend if its pool of profits (from which dividends are paid out of) is rising too. The best of the best, the ASX giants of providing returns, can keep this going for years, or even decades.
So today, let's talk about two of these elusive ASX giants that I think will provide investors with plenty of growth and dividends in the decades ahead.
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2 ASX giants to buy for both growth and dividends today
TechnologyOne Ltd (ASX: TNE)
TechnologyOne is an ASX 200 tech stock that operates in the software space. Its enterprise software products are enormously popular across government, educational and commercial markets in Australia. The company is also pushing its expansion overseas, with promising results so far.
TechnologyOne is well-known as an ASX growth stock. Over its FY2025 alone, the company delivered a 17% rise in net profits after tax to $137.6 million, as well as a 16% rise in earnings per share (EPS) to 43.13 cents.
But TechnologyOne is also a dividend growth stock, and one of the highest order. Including the habitual special dividends that the company pays, its dividends have increased from 9.45 cents per share in FY2016 to 36.6 cents per share by FY2025. That's a compounded annual growth rate of 16%.
Given the popularity of this company's products and its ambitious growth plans, it looks as though TechnologyOne could be a winner for decades to come.
Washington H. Soul Pattinson and Co Ltd (ASX: SOL)
Next up, we he a more mature company in Soul Patts. This stock is an ASX 200 veteran, having opened its doors more than a century ago. But that long history doesn't mean Soul Patts has forgotten how to generate meaningful growth and income for its investors.
This company owns and operates a vast underlying portfolio of diversified investments, ranging from ASX shares and venture capital to property and private credit.
According to a recent shareholder presentation, the company delivered a total shareholder return (growth plus dividends) of 13.7% per annum over the 25 years to 23 September 2025.
Soul Patts is famously ASX dividend royalty, possessing the ASX's longest streak of consecutive annual dividend increases. The company has upped its payouts every year since 1998.
Past performance is never a guarantee of future results, of course. But there's something to be said of delivering such impressive results over such a long period of time.
I think it's highly likely that this stock will also continue to deliver both growth and dividends in spades for decades to come.
