3 Dividend Stocks That Are Well Positioned to Provide a Lifetime of Passive Income

These companies have a clear path forward for decades of dividend growth.A company's ability to provide passive income for a lifetime is based on earnings growth, not what the dividend is today.A common mistake investors will make is focusing too much on the current yield of a stock, which could fall if the stock price has done well, even if dividend raises have been consistent.Here's why these three fool.com contributors think The Home Depot (HD -0.55%), York Water Company (YORW -0.41%), and Walmart (WMT 0 ...