Author: Jason Fieber, Dividends and Income

High-quality dividend growth stocks often hold up well during volatility, but they’re not totally immune. Here are five names to consider today.

When you’re relying on your dividends to pay your bills, not what you can sell your stocks for, the stock market’s volatility doesn’t matter very much.

With a market-smashing 5% yield, double-digit long-term dividend growth, and the potential that shares are 51% undervalued, this could be one of the best deals I’ve ever seen for long-term dividend growth investors.

High-quality dividend growth stocks are a good inflation hedge, in general. As prices rise, sales, profits, and dividends also tend to rise. Nominal growth is built right in.

There are a lot of things that you have to do right in order to achieve something like this. But some things are especially important.