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It's Thursday January 23rd and we're discussing dividend stocks.

My guest today is Motley Fool contributor Matt Delalo.

Matt, great to have you on.

Hey, thanks for happening.

All right, Matt, I'm excited to be talking about dividend stocks today.

I know your personal portfolio has a pretty heavy weighting in dividend stocks.

What makes dividend stocks so attractive to you as an investor?

Yeah, so it's hard to not like getting paid for work you didn't do. So I think that was like the initial thing that

drew me to dividend stocks years and years ago.

But I've learned just as an investor and working for Motley Full, been able to read a lot of research

on dividends and they actually tend to outperform

regular stocks by a pretty wide margin. There's a really great study out there

that Lissers can Google it from Ned Davis research and they found that I think it dated back from

1972 the dividend payers outperformed the S&P 500 so divot just a company that paid

a dividend was 8.8% per year annualized return versus the S&P at 7.3%.

Now what was really interesting was companies that grew their dividend.

They were the big out performers at 9.6%.

Companies that didn't increase their dividend,

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