Rovi Corporation (Nasdaq:ROVI) announced that it has signed a multi-year licensing agreement for DivX(R) technology with Shenzhen MTC Co., Ltd. (MTC), a China-based manufacturer of consumer electronics products.

Rovi Corporation provides digital entertainment technology solutions for the discovery and management of entertainment content.

It seems nowadays that every investing article ends with the same conclusion – you should be buying dividend stocks. They are all quoting studies citing the performance edge that dividends have enjoyed over the long-term and the value of a semi-fixed return generated from periodic dividend payments. However, you should beware of some of the information provided.

In my dividend database, I track nearly 190 stocks in 19 different sectors. Generally, the characteristics of certain sectors tend to match those that dividend growth investors are looking for, thus their constituents are often make better dividend investments. In the case of the stocks I track, nearly half of them are in these three sectors: