3 Dividend Stocks That Should Pay You the Rest of Your Life
What's better than payday? A payday that you didn't have to work for. Owning dividend-paying stocks offer just that: a business working for you in the background, the fruits of which are realized via a quarterly paycheck. Even better than a dividend-paying company, though, is a business that spins excess cash off to investors and delivers business growth along the way. Such companies are likely to continue rewarding owners for a very long time.
It can be a potent combination, too, one that has averaged total returns (stock appreciation plus dividend payments) in the low double digits over the long term. In the search for great dividend payers and pay raisers, Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), Store Capital (NYSE: STOR), and Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS) belong on the list of must-haves.
Let's start by getting the most familiar out of the way first. Though a staple of American culture, Starbucks is still a growth company -- and a dividend stock to boot with a yield of 1.9% as of this writing. That's not the biggest payout around, but it does include a 14% raise enacted this fall. The now $0.41 per share quarterly pay is more than triple what the coffee chain was doling out just five years ago.
Source Fool.com
