I'm really excited. I see a ton of opportunities and I look at this sort of short-term volatility

we're seeing and so this my myopic behavior of moving away from these really high quality

companies into you know treasury bonds so to speak or looking for yields elsewhere or

just in a cash really I think that's going to be a big mistake in the long run.

I'm Chris Hill and that's Motley Fool's Senior Analyst Matt Bargit Singer. If you're an

investor who's in it for the long haul now could be a great time to look for opportunities.

Ricky Mulvey caught up with Matt and Anthony Shivone for a conversation about a brand new

category of investing royalty. The dividend nights they dig into a few surprising stocks that

have crushed the market and a lot more.

All right so we spoke about a quarter ago stock market hasn't done so hot since then but

how have the dividend payers been been holding up in comparison to the broad S&P 500 in this

tough year?

Well yeah it has been a tough few months and the dividend payers have not held up as

well as I would have thought. In this market in this bear market I guess I mean it's

essentially everything has really been hit hard. That's especially been the case for real

estate investment trust. We've talked REITs before and generally in a downturn like this

where there's a lot of volatility. Dividend payers, REITs will hold up a lot better but I don't

think that's the case this time if you look at just how they performed and probably it

has a lot to do with the fact that unlike previous downturns this downturn is really

driven by higher rates. The Fed raised interest rates and how does that affect the dividend

payers because the immediate part of my brain would think that investors would want a dividend

paying stock, cost capital goes up higher which makes paying money out to shareholders

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