3 Dividend Kings That Should Crush The Broader Market in 2022

Over the past several weeks, investors have been fleeing premium-laden growth stocks in favor of high-quality defensive plays. This flight to safety is being driven by the dual headwinds of historically high inflation rates and the prospect of tighter monetary policies from the Federal Reserve in 2022. Nowhere is this trend more apparent than in the select group of companies known as Dividend Kings, which is an elite group of S&P 500 companies that have boosted their dividends for a minimum of 50 consecutive years.