It might be worth buying a stock with a relatively low dividend yield today with the expectation that you'll get a much higher yield on your original investment in five or 10 years. In the meantime, good dividend growth stocks have the potential to produce market-beating returns. dividend growers and initiators produced an average annual return of 10.24% over the past 50 years, according to data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds. Non-dividend payers, on the other hand, produced a negative return in the same period.

These three dividend growth stocks all have the potential to produce market-beating returns with consistent dividend increases for years to come.

(NASDAQ: SBUX) is the king of coffee. Its brand is synonymous with "coffee shop," and it has over 38,000 locations around the world. Even so, it sees room to keep expanding, growing to 41,000 locations next year and 55,000 by the end of the decade.

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