Quick Read – SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (SDY) — requires 20-year dividend streaks, weights by yield for defensive income. – Dividend Aristocrats ETF (KNG) enforces 25-year hike streak with covered calls to generate monthly payouts. – WisdomTree U.S.
LargeCap Dividend Fund (DLN) weights companies by actual cash dividends paid, capturing megacap dividend growth. – The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks and WisdomTree US LargeCap Dividend Fund wasn’t one of them
Get them here FREE. Long dividend records are a quality filter masquerading as an income strategy. A company that has paid and raised its dividend through the 2001 recession, the 2008 financial crisis, and the 2020 pandemic shock has proven something a yield screen cannot: the cash exists, and management is structurally committed to sharing it.
Three exchange-traded funds turn that filter into portfolios worth owning before the next downturn arrives. The SPDR S&P Dividend ETF (NYSEARCA:SDY), the FT Vest S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Target Income ETF (NYSEARCA:KNG), and the WisdomTree U.S. LargeCap Dividend Fund (NYSEARCA:DLN) each enforce a different consistency screen, and each pays you while you wait out the cycle.