Investing in long-term dividend growers has historically been one of the best strategies for generating predictable income for your portfolio. In most cases, you can also essentially guarantee yourself an annual pay raise that often exceeds the cost of inflation.
Investors have recognized this trend making dividend growth (NOBL) the clear outperformer among the primary equity income strategies, including both high yield (VYM) and dividend quality (QDF), over the past few years.
The drawback, though, is that dividend aristocrats collectively don't offer much in the way