Meet the Unknown Small-Cap Company That's Been Paying a Dividend for at Least 66 Years Longer Than Coca-Cola, ExxonMobil, and Eli Lilly

For well over a century, Wall Street has been a wealth-building machine. Despite its ups and downs, the average annual return from stocks over the very long-term handily outpaces other asset classes, including gold, oil, housing, and Treasury bonds.

While there is no shortage of strategies that can make investors richer on Wall Street, buying and holding dividend stocks tends to be head-and-shoulders above the pack.

Last year, the researchers at Hartford Funds published an all-encompassing report ("The Power of Dividends: Past, Present, and Future") that examined the varying outperformance of income stocks over extended periods.

Source Fool.com