Author: James Brumley, The Motley Fool

All three companies are in better shape than most investors are (understandably) presuming.

Not every great dividend stock is one you can count on holding for a lifetime. These are.

Give yourself the gift of a reliable, growing income as we end one year and begin another.

Simpler is almost always better, particularly when you can achieve so much high-quality diversification with such a small number of holdings.

Headlines have understandably routed this stock, but the market may be missing what the future likely holds.