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Stocks, in aggregate, are incredibly safe investments given enough time.
Source: Schroders
The above image refers to the overall stock market, rather than individual stocks.
Individual stocks have wider performance fluctuations, both in the short and long term.
That's why both reasonable diversification and investing in quality stocks are important.
Diversification reduces risk mathematically. If you have only 5% of your portfolio in a stock, you cap your portfolio level losses from that one stock at a maximum of 5%.
Investing in quality stocks – particularly true dividend growth stocks, which are a clear indicator of quality – offers risk reduction based on the nature of the investment.
One of the big advantages of dividend growth investing is that it reduces risk and investment mistakes by focusing solely on stocks that pay rising dividends.
Investing in high-risk securities can be exciting, and sometimes, you may hit truly big winners.
However, that excitement often comes at a steep cost; catastrophic losses are far more common in unproven businesses.
Dividend growth stocks represent proven businesses.
The longer a company’s dividend streak, the more it demonstrates its ability to generate actual cash and return it to shareholders.
In contrast, stocks that aren’t paying rising dividends can only hope to achieve this level of stability someday – though there are exceptions, such as Berkshire Hathaway, which doesn’t pay dividends but is far from a risky startup.
Investing in stocks has a proven history of long-term success. By focusing on quality businesses that return money to shareholders, you can reduce mistakes and benefit from compounding dividend income over time.
And that's where our flagship Sure Dividend Core Newsletter (SDC) comes in.
About The Sure Dividend Core Newsletter
The Sure Dividend Core Newsletter analyzes our Top 10 high quality dividend growth stocks every month.
The Sure Dividend Core Newsletter:
- Always publishes on the 1st Sunday of the month
- Initial edition went live in April of 2014
- Is currently trusted by more than 5,000 investors
And the SDC Newsletter has everything you need to build your rising passive income portfolio, including:
- Our Top 10 dividend growth stock buys
- Actionable sell recommendations
(As needed)
- A portfolio building guide
- And much more
We find the Top 10 best dividend growth stocks for the SDC Newsletter by analyzing more than 900 income securities every quarter in the Sure Analysis Research Database.
- Securities are analyzed over the same metrics so we can compare them on an apples-to-apples basis.
- This is real analysis from our ~15-person analyst team. It's not a quick computer screen or AI guesswork.
- All this analysis feeds into the SDC Newsletter Top 10 so we can systematically identify the best dividend growth stocks for our members.
We completed the Top 10 rankings for the upcoming June 2026 edition of the Sure Dividend Core Newsletter yesterday!
An average of this month's Top 10 has the following compelling characteristics:
- Expected annual dividend growth rate of 8.3%
(Ranging between 6.0% and 10.0%)
- Trading for 84% of fair value
(All are below our fair value estimates)
- Price-to-earnings ratio of just 15.3
(Using expected earnings for the current fiscal year)
- Dividend yield of 2.7%
(Yields range from 2.3% to 3.8%)
- 24 consecutive years of rising dividends
(Including 2 stocks with 50 or more years)
Note: Click here to see a historical edition.
Our Systematic Ranking Approach
The Sure Dividend Core Newsletter Top 10 is not a quick rundown from some self-proclaimed 'stock market guru'.
Instead, our ~15 person team analyzes more than 900 income securities every quarter in the Sure Analysis Research Database, over the same metrics that matter.
“The person that turns over the most rocks wins the game. And that’s always been my investing philosophy.”
– Peter Lynch
Notes: Here's an example of 1 of our 900+ quarterly reports we do in Sure Analysis, to get an idea of the level of research that goes into finding the Sure Dividend Core Newsletter Top 10. And here's our glossary for explanations of metrics.
The metrics and research we do in the Sure Analysis Research Database power our flagship newsletter, the Sure Dividend Core Newsletter.
The exact ranking methodology we use is shown below (it's in each edition of the newsletter as well):
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– Sure Dividend member
Why Now Is The Best Time To Get The SDC Newsletter
Now is the best time to get the SDC Newsletter because:
- New June 2026 Newsletter
We will publish the new June 2026 edition of our flagship Sure Dividend Core Newsletter (SDC) this Sunday morning!
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Note: This offer is also available on our other premium newsletters.
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To your compounding dividend income,
Ben Reynolds
Founder, Sure Dividend
P.S. The new June 2026 edition of the Sure Dividend Core Newsletter goes live this Sunday morning! Click here to join the lifetime plan for just one payment of $299.
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