Dividend aristocrats are stocks with at least 25 years of consecutive annual dividend growth. These “regal” dividend stocks are often considered some of the highest-quality long-term stocks to buy and hold. Yet, perception and reality don’t necessarily match.Even when measuring them by total returns, or price appreciation and dividends, many of these names have underperformed relative to the broad market. More importantly, there are “dividend aristocrats,” not to mention “dividend kings.” The latter have ov ...