I’m a big believer in boosting your total return through stock dividends. While you still face market risk — stocks will get hurt if interest rates rise or there’s a sell-off — stock dividends are a good way to combine yield and growth. There’s no shame in hunting for individual high yielders, but I prefer to buy them in a package through exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Some of the best-returning stocks are included in ETF holdings, but not all ETFs are equal.
Ideally, you want companies that are growing their dividends and offer diversification through several industry holdings. Four ETFs fit the bill: Vanguard Dividend Appreciation (VIG) yield: 2.0%, iShares Dow Jones Select Div. index (DVY) yield: 3.0%, SPDR S&P Dividend (SDY) 2.3%, Vanguard High Div. Yield (VYM) 2.86%. What do all of these funds have in common? They have the most assets of all of the ETFs investing in dividend-paying stocks.
Source: Forbes
Related Articles:
- What's Your Retirement Vision?
- Stock Dividends - The Gift of Nothing
- What's More Powerful Than Compound Interest?
- Dividends vs. Stock Buybacks
- 5 Lessons Learned About Investing In Dividend Growth Stocks
________________________________________________________________
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts Last 30 Days
-
Stocks that offer big dividend yields are often backed by businesses that are going through rough patches and experiencing significant downt...
-
With the calendar turning over to 2019, many of the trends causing the rise in volatility aren’t stopping. To that end, making a calculated ...
-
Many dividend stocks tumbled over the past year, since conservative investors often shift from high-yielding stocks to bonds when interest r...
-
Because we're expected to live longer than those just a generation or two removed from us, we'll need income during our retirement f...
-
This company has become an income machine for investors over the past three decades, thanks in large part to the 132 consecutive dividends i...
-
For the most part, stock market investors love the technology sector. While tech stocks were hit particularly hard during the latest market ...
-
If you want to find good deals this holiday season, forget the department stores. Instead, go to the stock market. Due to the lackluster per...
-
Showing resilience during a tough week was a group of stocks that has not been heard from much in the past two years. A group that has been ...
-
Even though GDP is growing nicely, consumer spending is red hot and unemployment is low, the stocks that are outperforming are all ones we’d...
-
The yield is 9.07%, with 1.14X coverage in Q3 '18. EVA has a $7.4B backlog that's contracted through 2025. Management expects EBITDA...
0 comments
Post a Comment
Post a Comment