These Stocks Cut You a Quarterly Paycheck

There are no guarantees in the stock market. But there is history on your side. Over the past 50 years, the S&P 500, an index of 500 large companies publicly traded in the United States, has provided an average total return of 10% per year.

Total return combines dividend payouts and share price movement. Here are three quarterly dividend blue chips to consider. Each is paying a higher yield right now than the S&P 500's current rate of 1.69% or its historic average of 1.85%.

Two of them are among the exclusive club of the S&P 500's Dividend Aristocrats: companies that have raised their dividend at least once a year for at least 25 consecutive years. And the other is a Dividend King with 54 straight years of payout increases.

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Source Fool.com