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3 Dividend Stocks Raising Their Payouts Again

A hot AI name. A biotech moonshot. A “next Nvidia” stock some guy on social media says is going to 10x by Friday. That’s the dopamine trade. But there’s another kind of stock most investors ignore because it’s too boring to brag about. The kind that doesn’t need a viral chart. The kind that doesn’t need Reddit hype. The kind that simply sends shareholders a check every quarter — and then quietly raises that check year after year. That’s the signal we’re watching today. Because when a company raises its dividend for 40, 50, or even 60-plus consecutive years, it’s telling you something Wall Street can’t fake with a press release. It’s saying the business survived recessions. It survived inflation shocks. It survived rate hikes. It survived market crashes, banking panics, supply-chain chaos, and pandemic distortions. And through all of it, management kept writing the check. That doesn’t happen by accident. It usually means the business has real cash flow, real customers, and enough…

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FEATURED ANALYSIS

Get Paid While You Wait: 6 Dividend Names With Real Backing

When markets get jumpy, Wall Street does what it always does: it sells you “safety” after the price already moved. We’d rather get ahead of it. Income investing isn’t about hiding. It’s about getting paid to be patient while the market throws tantrums. The trick is separating durable cash-flow machines from yield-shaped landmines. This week we leaned on a dividend-focused screen from Morningstar’s list of best dividend stocks for 2026—names they say were in the 4- and 5-star range as of April…

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