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Dividend stocks could be ideal for a retiree trying to build regular income.  Talk to your financial advisor about using these stocks in your IRA

A Dividend Aristocrat is defined as a company that has raised its dividend for at least 25 consecutive years. We checked in with three of our analysts for their best current Dividend Aristocrat investment candidate. They returned three stock picks from an even more exclusive list, the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats.

The oil crash presents a great long-term opportunity for dividend lovers to pick up undervalued shares of Chevron Corp. (NYSE:CVX), which has raised its dividend every year since 1986.

The power of dividend growth is a huge component of what makes stocks such an attractive long-term investment, and that's especially true among blue-chip stocks like energy giant ExxonMobil (NYSE:XOM).

S&P 500 stalwart 3M Co. (NYSE:MMM) is a stable and growing investment vehicle offering a generous current dividend yield of 2.9%.