Want $300 in Monthly Dividend Income? Invest $45,000 in These Ultra-High-Yield Stocks

The stock market offers numerous ways for investors to make money. But few investing focuses have proved more lucrative over the long run than buying dividend stocks.

Although the study is now a bit dated, a 2013 report from J.P. Morgan Asset Management provides plain-as-day evidence that dividend stocks run circles around their non-dividend-paying peers over the long term. Companies that initiated and grew their payouts between 1972 and 2012 averaged an annual return of 9.5%. Meanwhile, the companies that didn't pay dividends delivered a considerably lower annualized return of only 1.6% over the same four-decade stretch.

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