3 of the Safest High-Yield Dividend Stocks
Dividend stocks can aptly be described as the heart of any successful investment portfolio. While investors can succeed by purchasing companies that don't pay a dividend, the odds are most certainly in your favor if you load your portfolio with dividend stocks.
According to a 2013 report from J.P. Morgan Asset Management, the average annualized total return of non-dividend-paying stocks between 1972 and 2012 was a meager 1.6%. Comparatively, companies that initiated and grew their dividends over this same 40-year period delivered average annualized returns of 9.5%.
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