Hello everyone welcome to Industry Focus Financials Edition. We thought we'd change

up the show and do a theme week in conjunction with the other sectors so get excited for

dividend week at Industry Focus. Tune into each of our episodes this week

to hear what all the IF contributors

think about dividends in their different sectors.

So I'm just going to dive right into it. We thought since this was the first show of the week,

we would do a quick little, what is a dividend stock?

Three things you should look for in a dividend stock.

Max Fieldwood is a dividend stock.

I mean a dividend stock, I mean a lot of investors would probably be like,

why are you guys covering such a basic thing?

Well, the important thing to realize is that not everybody's at the same level of investing.

And so when you're talking about dividend stocks in particular, there's a couple different types of stocks, right?

There's like gross stocks that like Tesla companies that are 3D systems, other companies that are quickly growing, and then

they're income stocks that they're not growing as quickly, they're more mature,

but what they do as opposed to taking the money that they earn and reinvesting that back

into the business, they distribute that money to shareholders each quarter via dividends.

And so you could get like a, you know, buy a stock and get, you know, for a hundred bucks and say get, you know,

two dollars in dividends a year.

And so that's what dividend stocks are.

Right.

And I just want to point out that just because companies are paying out dividends doesn't necessarily

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