Want $200 in Monthly Dividend Income? Invest $26,500 in These High-Yield Stocks
While there is no shortage of ways to make money on Wall Street, few investing strategies have proved more successful over long periods of time than buying dividend stocks.
In 2013, J.P. Morgan Asset Management, a division of JPMorgan Chase, issued a report that compared the performance of publicly traded companies paying a dividend to their non-dividend-paying peers over a four-decade stretch (1972-2012). The results were as eye-opening as you might expect. Companies that paid a dividend averaged an annual return of 9.5% over 40 years. By comparison, the non-dividend-paying stocks struggled to an annualized gain of 1.6% over the same period.
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