The 2022 Bear Market Has Been No Match for These 3 Dividend Kings

As the bear market intensifies, more sectors of the economy are seeing equity valuations tumble. A Dividend King is an S&P 500 component that has paid and raised its dividend for at least 50 years. At a minimum, that means members of this coveted cohort raised their payouts through most of the high-inflation 1970s, the bear market of the early 1980s, the dot-com bubble burst, the great financial crisis, the worst of the U.S.-China trade war, and the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic.