Author: Brett Owens, Contrarian Outlook

Over the past five years, they’ve showered their shareholders with dividend growth from 100% to 1000% or better (and their share prices have soared along with their payouts)…

Wall Street’s supposedly elite group of stocks that have increased their annual payouts every year for at least a quarter-century — the Dividend Aristocrats — are peddled by advisers and pundits alike as supreme plays for income portfolios. And sure, a select few of them are (we’ll discuss two today). But a whole lot more of them are simply “dead money”, such as these two…

In short, their cash flow streams could soon dry up. And if the cash evaporates, so will the dividend.

Most “first-level investors” believe that investing is an either-or proposition: A stock or fund can deliver eye-popping yield OR breakneck growth… but not both. That’s simply not true, though, and we’ll prove it today with these three stocks…

In short, they look set to fall hard…