Who says investors can't have their cake and eat it too? You can absolutely collect good dividends from stocks that are also beating the market. You just have to find the right stocks!

With that as the backdrop, here's a closer look at three dividend-paying names that have been outpacing the S 500 for a while now. All three of them have the potential to continue doing so for years, and their safe-as-houses dividends are even more likely to continue being paid.

Brick-and-mortar retailer (NYSE: WMT) may be one of the market's very best stock picks hiding in plain sight. Shares are up nearly 60% for the past five years, and higher to the tune of more than 100% for the past ten. The stock also just touched an all-time high at a point in time when the market as a whole is far from doing the same.

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