5 Dividend Kings I Bought for My Portfolio
In periods of rising inflation and slowing economic growth, one constant investors can count on is the reliability of dividend stocks to see them through.
The asset managers at Hartford Funds looked at the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 going all the way back to 1930 and found that dividends contributed 40% to the total return of the index over that 91-year period. The study also found that from 1960 to 2021, dividends represented an astounding 84% of the index's total return.
But which dividend stocks should you buy? In times of turmoil, I like buying stocks with long histories of not only paying dividends, but raising their payouts. For that I turn to Dividend Kings, or stocks that have increased their dividends every year for 50 years or more.
Source Fool.com
