Worried A Stock Market Crash Is Coming? 3 No-Brainer Dividend Stocks You Don't Need to Wait to Buy

The past 16 months has been incredible for stock market investors. Since bottoming out on March 23, 2020, the S&P 500 Index, a great proxy for the U.S. stock market, has gained over 101% in total returns, more than doubling in value over that period. 

Let me put it another way to stress how wonderful this period has been: Based on the stock market's usual average rate of return, it usually takes eight years to earn that kind of return. It's been a very good year and a half for investors. 

But there's reason many investors are worried about another crash. Most stock market indexes closed at or near record levels on Friday July 23, and an overvalued stock market, rising inflation, and rising cases of coronavirus that could upend the economic recovery, portend a stock market sell-off, potentially sooner rather than later. 

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