As an investor you don't have to go out there and find the company that's growing its

revenue the fastest. If someone's gonna look at Dillard's and say wait wait the

revenue is like flat or down why am I why would I even think about investing in

this company and you sort of ignore the idea of what's happening underneath the

surface at the bottom line capital allocation what management's doing and you can

ignore a lot of great wonderful investment stories by doing that.

I'm Mary Long and that's Matt Argissinger, senior analyst at The Fool and a lead advisor on our dividend investor service.

Ricky Mulvey caught up with Matt and Anthony Chavone to dive deep into dividends.

They discuss the case for making dividend stocks the focus of your portfolio.

What makes some dividends particularly special,

and how line dancing and free bread rolls have made a market beater.

Anthony Chavone, Matt Argusinger, always good to catch up with you and talk about dividends.

I know this is a topic you're passionate about and one that honestly we don't talk about on the

show enough, so thanks for being here.

You bet Ricky, happy to be here. Of course. All right so we'll kick things off for for newer investors because we're still in January and this is when people are getting

interested in investing

and there's a lot of big stories

about these huge growthy companies,

but set the table with maybe the long-term case

for the dividend paying stocks.

Sure, so I think when most investors, especially newer investors when they think about

dividend stocks or companies that pay dividends, their immediate thought is, okay, well, great,

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