Want $7,500 in Annual Dividend Income? Invest $101,000 in These Ultra-High-Yield Energy Stocks

While there are a number of moneymaking investing strategies, buying dividend stocks just might be the best.

Back in 2013, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, a division of money-center bank JPMorgan Chase, issued a report comparing the performance of companies that initiated and grew their payouts to publicly traded companies that didn't pay a dividend. Over a 40-year stretch (1972-2012), the dividend stocks mopped the floor with the non-dividend payers: 9.5% annualized return vs. 1.6% annualized return.

Because income stocks are often profitable and time-tested, they're just the types of businesses we'd expect to increase in value over time. In other words, it's not a matter of if dividend stocks can make you money -- it's determining which dividend stocks to buy.

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