4 Tariff-Proof Dividend Stocks Poised to Double

Is it time to tariff-proof our dividends (again)? A couple months into the U.S.-China trade tensions, I said the key was to buy dividend-growth stocks : “Payout growth like that is proven to throw an updraft under share prices when the markets get skittish due to any kind of worry: trade spats, terrorist attacks, wars—you name it.” Then I highlighted a trio of dividend growers– Life Storage (LSI) , Ecolab (ECL) and Carnival Corp. (CCL) –that looked primed to swim upstream. Unpredictable fuel costs helped weigh on our Carnival pick, but even then, the combined total return of all three selections nearly doubled the S&P 500’s return.… Read more