Individual investors generally fall into one of two camps. Some are concerned with optimizing their portfolio's performance, while others are more interested in building a stream of recurring income.

Regardless of which camp you're in, filling your portfolio with dividend-paying stocks is a great way to achieve your goal. dividend-paying stocks tend to outperform shares of businesses that aren't committed to distributing a significant portion of their profits -- and the differences are dramatic.

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