These 7 Dividend Stocks Pay $96 Billion a Year, Combined, to Their Shareholders
There is no shortage of investing strategies to make money on Wall Street. However, buying dividend stocks has historically been among the most successful.
According to a report published 10 years ago by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase (NYSE: JPM), income stocks have a history of wildly outperforming companies that don't offer a dividend. Between 1972 and 2012, companies that initiated and grew their payouts averaged a 9.5% annual return. By comparison, the annualized return of non-dividend stocks over the same 40-year period was a mere 1.6%.
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