These 6 Dividend Stocks Pay $83 Billion a Year, Combined, to Their Shareholders
Although there are a lot of investing strategies that have the potential to make investors richer over time, few have a better track record of success than dividend stocks.
Companies that pay a dividend are often profitable on a recurring basis and time-tested (i.e., they've proven they can withstand a recession... or 10). Further, they have a clear-cut history of outperforming their publicly traded peers that don't pay a dividend.
Back in 2013, J.P. Morgan Asset Management released a report comparing the performance of companies that initiated and grew their payouts to stocks with no dividend over a 40-year stretch (1972-2012). The end result was a 9.5% average annual return for the income stocks versus a meager 1.6% average annual return for the companies without a dividend.
Source Fool.com
