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Baby Aristocrats (September 2025)

From the desk of Steve Strazza @Sstrazza

The way to make money in dividend stocks is not to buy the stocks that pay high dividends. That’s actually one of the best ways to lose money in dividend stocks

What we’re specifically looking for are stocks where the company is increasing their dividend every year, while the stock is making new highs.

In other words, if a company has the ability to raise the dividend every year, and the price of the stock is going up - then something must be going right over there. 

You could know nothing about the fundamentals of the company, but from a quality filter standpoint, if the price of the stock keeps going up, and the company keeps raising their dividend every year, how bad could things be?

Traditionally a Dividend Aristocrat is a company that has raised its dividend every year for at least 25 consecutive years. But by the time that has occurred you’re probably not early to the story.

So the sweet spot for us is a company who is hitting new highs and has raised its dividend every year for 5-9 consecutive years.

For the purposes of this Special Report, we are only focusing on the small-cap Young Aristocrat stocks. So we’re looking at companies between $1-10 Billion in market-cap who consistently hike their payout.

Here's our latest list of dividend growth stocks:

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