Dividend Aristocrats are a unique class of dividend stocks. They are companies that are members of the S&P 500 and have increased their payouts to shareholders for at least 25 years. That’s no small feat. Out of the thousands of publicly traded stocks on the market, only 68 stocks made the cut this year. This elite group of royals are important because dividend growth stocks tend to outperform all other stocks over time. Looking back to 1930, Ned Davis Research found companies that initiated a dividend and ...