The Biggest Danger With Dividend Stocks

Many investors, specifically those near retirement, gravitate toward dividend stocks. For many, dividends provide a steady and, hopefully, rising income stream, no matter what's going on with the stock market.

Or so many think.

Of course, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies in travel and leisure, airlines, and oil and gas are cutting their payouts. Even the mighty Disney (NYSE: DIS) is suspending its next biannual dividend. It could do more. 

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Source Fool.com