Two dividend paying stocks getting crushed today with yields above 3% is now the time to dig in?

Today on Motley Full Money will be knighting some dividends.

I'm Emily Flippen and today I'm joined by analysts Matt Argusinger and Aunt Chavone

to talk about dividend stocks.

We'll be covering some recent headlines for dividend paying companies and discuss opportunities

that should be on every investor's radars.

But first, of course, we have to talk about the framework that you, Matt, and you

aunt talk about and look at when looking at income generating investments. I know you both

recently updated your list of dividend nights. Now, remind us what that means and what you generally

look for.

Sure, Emily. And thanks for having us. So the dividend nights are something Ante and I came up with a few years ago.

And it was really in reaction to a lot of the other monikers that you hear out in the marketplace

if you're a dividend investor, whether it's the dividend achievers, dividend aristocrats, dividend

kings.

And a lot of those classes of stocks, those dividend paying stocks, are based on consistent dividend

raisers. So whether companies raise a dividend for 10 consecutive years, 25 consecutive years,

or in the case of the Kings, 50 consecutive years, amazing. But we don't think it tells the whole

story about how a company is doing and whether it can sustain the kind of dividend

growth that we think is going to lead to great returns.

So we came up with the dividend nights, which is it kind of follows a rule of 10, Emily, which

is we looked at companies that have paid a dividend for 10 consecutive years, have grown that

dividend, not necessarily raised it for 10 consecutive years, but have grown that dividend at a 10% compound annual rate for those 10 years.

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