Dividend Stocks To Have And To Hold

Gone are the days when silent, cigar-smoking men would haunt brokerages and watch the ticker display. No longer is the local banker a source of sound investment advice, the stockbroker an exclusive source of market knowledge. No longer do investors visit the public library to sit for hours poring over paper copies of Value Line and reading financial newspapers, magazines and journals. We go online to find our stocks, for introductions to them at sites like Seeking Alpha. We extend our knowledge of them by using many online data providers; we also do background checks online as part of our due diligence. The wedding is online as we, with a click of the mouse at our online broker's site, seal the selection with a purchase.

We present 7 excellent candidates for long-term investors; stocks you can hold for years that will provide you with increasing, inflation beating, returns: ConocoPhillips (COP), Emerson Electric (EMR), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), McDonald's (MCD), Microsoft Corporation (MSFT), Royal Bank of Canada (RY) and Southern Company (SO).

Source: Seeking alpha

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