So if you think about that, how many recessions, business cycles, wars, calamities happen over a 50-year

period, and yet here's a company that's raised this dividend every year.

I'm Ricky Mulvey, and that's Motley Fool senior analyst Matt Argusinger. Look, dominant tech

companies have their own category, the Magnificent Seven. You probably already know it. But on today's show, Matt Argusinger. Look, dominant tech companies have their own category, the magnificent seven.

You probably already know it. But on today's show, Matt Argusinger and Anthony Chavone

unveil their own group of seven, the dividend seven, powerful companies that pay investors' income.

They joined Mary Long to discuss a big retailer that's insulated itself from Amazon, a dominant financial

company with $10.7 trillion in assets under management, and what it takes for a company

to enter the D seven, this basket of tech stocks that have dominated the market recently.

But you two have come up with a different set of stocks.

You've called it the dividend seven.

What exactly is the criteria for making it into this group?

And how did you land on these requirements?

There are seven of them, I'm correct, right? That's right. Well, thank you, Mary. Yeah, this was a fun

exercise for us. You know, we've seen, of course, the Magnificent Seven be this, I don't know,

this major force in the market that investors have just been, you know, magnetized

to. And we thought, well, you know, we talk a lot about dividends. We do a dividend show here,

you know, at the Motley Fool every other week. And we thought, you know, a fun topic would be,

could we do our own version of the Magnificent Seven and, you know, layer in dividends and come up with this dividend seven or div seven group.

And so the Magnificent Seven was our inspiration.

And so I think that's kind of, and it kind of feeds into the seven criteria we use to select the stocks.

So we'll start with the first one, which is just dominance.

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