Say Hello to the Fastest-Growing High-Yield Dividend Stock

Over the long term, there are two trends that investors can count on. First, the stock market's major indexes will rise in value over time as operating earnings grow. And second, dividend stocks will run circles around their non-dividend-paying peers.

Back in 2013, Bank of America/Merrill Lynch released a report that looked back at the performance of dividend and non-dividend-paying stocks between 1972 and 2012. Public companies that initiated and grew their payouts over this four-decade stretch delivered average compound annual gains of 9.5%.

Comparatively, public companies that didn't pay a dividend averaged a relatively anemic annual gain of 1.6%. This might not sound like a huge difference, but over a 40-year period, we're talking about a 1,900% outperformance for dividend stocks.

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