My 2 Top Dividend Stocks for September
There is the very real possibility we're going to be mired in an extended period of stagflation. We've had two consecutive quarters of economic contraction, the common yardstick for a recession, and the August inflation print just showed the consumer price index rose to 8.3% when economists were expecting a decline.
In such periods of uncertainty, investors can take comfort in the reliability of dividend stocks to see them through.
The asset managers at Hartford Funds looked at the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 going as far back as 1930, and found that in every decade, dividend-paying stocks generated positive returns. Throughout the Great Depression and the "lost decade" of the 2000s, dividend stocks held up when non-paying stocks declined.
Source Fool.com
