If you're just getting started with dividend investing, congratulations: You could hardly have picked a better time. dividend stocks have been getting beaten down this year through no fault of their own.

Now that interest rates have risen sharply to combat inflation, institutional investors can receive risk-free returns from Treasuries that are hard to pass up. With less demand from big buyers, many dividend-paying stocks with long track records of annual payout raises have been in free fall.

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