Numerous studies underscore the idea that dividend stocks outperform non-paying ones by a wide margin. J.P. Morgan Asset Management found stocks that initiated and then raised their payouts over a 40-year period between 1972 and 2012 returned an average of 9.5% annually, versus just 1.6% non-dividend-paying stocks.
Companies that have raised their dividends every year for 50 or more years are called Dividend Kings. They are a rare and select group of companies. Only 51 stocks out of the thousands that trade on the market currently qualify for the list.
Dividend stocks have been one of the best ways to make money in the stock market for 100 years. Sit back and let dividends do the heavy lifting for a simple, steady path to serious wealth creation over time.
The asset managers at Hartford Funds similarly found that dividends contributed 34% to the total return of the benchmark S&P 500 going all the way back to 1930. Moreover, dividend stocks never had a single decade where they lost money.
#dividend-stocks #investment-strategy #dividend-kings #stock-market-performance #financial-wealth-creation
Collection
[
|
...
]