With a host of U.S. financials recently announcing dividend hikes, dividend stocks are attracting attention once again. Howard Silverblatt, Senior Index Analyst at Standard & Poor's, tells BNN in the past three months alone, dividend investors have received a “7-percent pay raise.”

“As an instrument, as long as you’re willing to be into the equity markets, I think the dividend payers give you a much better edge because you’re getting money for holding the stock, not just waiting to sell it at some point down the road,” he says.

Source: BNN

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