5 Surefire Dividend Stocks You Can Buy Right Now
The vast majority of retirement portfolios have one thing in common: They're powered by great dividend stocks.
Although most dividend stocks are "boring," that's not a bad thing. Regularly doling out cash to investors is often indicative of a business that's time-tested and expected to remain profitable for many years to come.
You know what else is great about dividend stocks? They handily outperform their non-dividend-paying peers. A 2013 report from J.P. Morgan Asset Management compared the returns of companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 to publicly traded companies that didn't offer a dividend. The result? The dividend-paying stocks delivered an annualized return of 9.5% over four decades, while the non-dividend payers scraped their way to a meager 1.6% average annual return.
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