"Today is as good a time as ever to invest in dividend-paying stocks." That declaration is from a 15-page report entitled "Total Return Investing: Dividends for an Uncertain World," by Catherine Maniscalco Avery, who in 2007, with more than 20 years' experience as a portfolio manager with such investment firms as Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, founded Catherine Avery Investment Management in New Canaan, Conn.
She has statistics to reinforce her strong belief that it pays to own dividend stocks during times of market corrections or downturns. Since the 1930s, dividends have accounted for 51.5% of the total return (dividends, plus stock-price appreciation) received by investors in the S&P 500, Avery writes. What's more, "since the index was actually down during [two decades] the 1930s and 2000s, dividends were the only source of return during those years."
Source: Baron's
Related Articles:
- 10 Stocks With 100+ Years of Dividend Payments
- 10 Dividend Stocks With Above Target Returns
- 5 Dividend Stocks Trading Below Fair Value
- 8 Dividend Stocks Covering Their Dividend
- 7 Low-Debt High-Rated Dividend Stocks
Dividend Stocks as the Best Hedge
Posted by D4L | Friday, July 08, 2011 | ArticleLinks | 0 comments »________________________________________________________________
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
~
Popular Posts Last 30 Days
-
Long-term investors know that dividends can have a major impact on returns over time. When the stock market is struggling to make gains like...
-
As a relatively new blogger, the one thing that has stood out in my mind is the number of Canadian bloggers in the areas that I am most inte...
-
We decided to go on a hunt for quality stocks that for one reason or another have been buried, and not just this year. We found three incred...
-
Buy and hold ... forever? It's a tall order, but a select few companies are potentially up to the task. You can build a wealth-compoundi...
-
Does the high interest rate environment we're living in have you feeling down? Here's something to remember that can help you turn t...
-
Dividend stocks can be consistent market-beaters. However, empirical research shows that the best dividend stocks tend to generate better-th...
-
High-quality dividend stocks are always worth loading up on. This is doubly true for companies that offer shareholders an attractive mix of ...
-
Some dividend-paying companies have seen their financials struggle over the years. These companies become vulnerable to dividend cuts which ...
-
Essentially, we’re looking for more Apples – tech firms with a large market cap (at least $1-billion) and the financial means necessary to p...
-
Numerous high-quality dividend opportunities are up for grabs at the moment, which may be appealing to some investors given the uncertainty ...
0 comments
Post a Comment
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.