
Dividend Kings are companies that have increased their dividends for 50 or more consecutive years. To many income investors, reliable dividend payments that increase over time sound like a done deal.
However, just because a stock is a Dividend King does not mean it’s an automatic buy. We have to consider what experts think about them—because, more often than not, they know what they’re talking about and have access to data that might be challenging for the regular investor to access.