One of the best parts about investing is that your money goes to work for you, potentially providing you rewards for the risks you are taking by investing it. Of those rewards, dividend payments are among the sweetest.

This is because most dividends are tangible, cash payments generated from a company's operations. Those dividends can be paid out based on the health of the business, not the mood of the market. In addition, that cash hits shareholders' accounts without those shareholders needing to sell and lower their ownership stakes in the businesses that paid them.

While a dividend is never a guaranteed payment, those previously mentioned factors make dividends very attractive to investors. Quite frequently, companies will pay their dividends quarterly, but there are a small handful that will offer their investors a faster payout cycle. These two stocks, in fact, cut their investors a check every single month.

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