Whether you're a new investor or you've been at it for decades, 2022 was a very bad year. The benchmark S&P 500 index collapsed by 19.4% and the Nasdaq Composite index fell a stunning 33.1%.

While the market was tanking last year, you may have noticed investors with lots of dividend-paying stocks in their portfolios weren't nearly as stressed out as investors who were watching their growth stocks collapse.

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