3 Stocks With High Dividend Yields

If we let history guide us, the best thing to do with cash in times of market turbulence like we're seeing is to buy dividend stocks. Numerous studies also underscore the fact that dividend stocks outperform stocks that don't pay a dividend by a wide margin.

J.P. Morgan Asset Management found that 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% for nonpayers. Moreover, over rolling three-year periods, dividend stocks with higher yields beat stocks with low yields or no dividend payment at all about two-thirds of the time.

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