Stocks of companies that raise dividends consistently have outperformed during this year’s bear market.
Here’s how the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index has performed against the S&P 500 this year through Dec. 2 with dividends reinvested: Investing in NOBL is an easy way to ride along with this group, but you might also be interested in individual aristocrats for long-term growth or income investments.
To screen by enthusiasm among analysts working for brokerage firms, we narrowed the list to 119 covered by at least five analysts polled by FactSet.
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