If you're anticipating a long retirement, you'll want to remain invested in stocks to give your money a chance of outpacing inflation over time. To balance your need for income with the longer-term growth that stocks can provide, focus on owning companies that pay, and have the potential to increase, dividends. That way, you can have cash coming in that doesn't depend on selling shares. With that in mind, here are three top stocks to consider for a retiree portfolio...
Enbridge (NYSE:ENB) is a Canadian company with a huge presence in the United States as well; it's North America's largest energy infrastructure company. Enbridge makes most of its money delivering energy -- most notably oil and natural gas -- from where it's produced to where it's consumed. Prudential Financial (NYSE:PRU) makes a very big deal about its financial strength, using the Rock of Gibraltar as its corporate logo to call out its rock-solid financial position. Prudential does indeed have a strong financial position, boasting a debt-to-equity ratio below 0.6, and billions of dollars in cash and equivalents on its balance sheet. In its heyday, International Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) was the undisputed ruler of computing. Indeed, the old saying was that "you won't get fired for buying IBM," because the company's reputation for quality was so strong that people were willing to pay up for the IBM name.
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