3 Ultra-High-Yield Dividend Stocks to Buy Hand Over Fist in May

For patient investors, there are no shortage of strategies that can successfully build wealth on Wall Street. But among these strategies, perhaps none is more fruitful than buying dividend stocks.

Nine years ago, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, which is a division of the nation's largest bank by market cap, JPMorgan Chase, released a report that examined the performance of dividend stocks to non-payers over four decades (1972-2012). During this 40-year time frame, dividend stocks averaged an annual return of 9.5%. This means investors were doubling their money every 7.6 years. Meanwhile, the non-dividend stocks trudged their way to a paltry annualized return of 1.6%.

Since companies that regularly pay a dividend are often profitable, time-tested, and have transparent growth outlooks, they're just the type of stocks investors will flock to during periods of heightened market volatility.

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