3 Dividend Stocks That Thrive in Market Crashes

When markets get overheated, as they seemingly are now, it's only natural for investors to begin thinking about stocks that not only can survive a downturn -- or worse, a crash -- but may even be able to thrive during one.

We asked three Motley Fool investors to each identify a stock that had such attributes. Read on to discover why McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN), and Clorox (NYSE: CLX) are stocks that may possess an innate resilience to bad times.

Keith Noonan (McDonald's): When economic conditions worsened during the 2008 economic crisis, sales at McDonald's actually increased, and the company's shares proved to be quite resilient amid a stretch that saw no shortage of worrying economic data.

Source: Fool.com