3 Reasons Why Top Dividend Aristocrats Are Antidotes for a Bear Market

3 Reasons Why Top Dividend Aristocrats Are Antidotes for a Bear Market

Dividend Aristocrats are companies in the S&P 500 index that have increased the amount of cash dividends they pay to shareholders for at least 25 years straight. With that impressive performance and recent market turbulence in mind, a panel of Motley Fool contributors has broken down three reasons why Dividend Aristocrats could help your portfolio weather challenging conditions and prosper over the long term. Daniel Foelber: Bear markets are brutal enough.