Author: Brett Owens, Contrarian Outlook

Add these three names together and you have a “2020-proof” mini-portfolio built for anything the rest of this year can throw at us.

Successful dividend investing is simple, though not necessarily easy.

Even in a bull market, there are dividend traps paying 8% to 10% that’ll sink despite the broader rising tide.

They all perfectly demonstrate the returns a surging dividend and well-timed buybacks can give you.

They’ve earned sterling 5 scores from DIVCON, indicating their distributions could take a bullet and keep marching forward.