3 Dividend Investing Tips That Could Earn You Thousands
With interest rates at rock-bottom levels, it can be hard to find high-yielding investments for your portfolio. Buying 10-year U.S. treasuries currently only pays you a tad over 1% a year, while buying a broad-based S&P 500 index fund has a meager dividend yield of 1.3%. Both these payouts are at or near all-time lows.
So what's an investor looking to increase their portfolio's yield to do? One way is to buy individual stocks with above-market dividend yields. Here are three tips for anyone buying dividend stocks to help improve your chances of success.
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