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Dividend Stock Ratings Widget Released!
We've officially released our Dividend Stock Ratings Widget to the public. With this simple application, website and blog owners can easily and effectively include a specific dividend stock's Dividend.com Rating on their own websites!
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Dividend.com Featured on Mashable!
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Our Rating System
Our proprietary dividend stock rating system is the biggest thing that sets us apart from other companies. We've painstakingly researched, reviewed, rated, and ranked almost 1,900 dividend-paying stocks.
Start browsing our dividend stock ratings and you'll soon recognize the quality and value of the stock research we've done.
Why Dividend Stocks?
For far too long, dividend stocks have been considered "boring" by mainstream investors. The question we like to ask around here is "What's so boring about making above-average returns and building long-term financial security?"
We believe that dividend-paying stocks are the best way to build long-term wealth.
In the real world, no one builds a fortune overnight. The key to growing your money is making smart investing decisions over a period of several years.
That's what's so great about high-quality dividend stocks -- these companies actually pay dividends to their investors every year, simply for owning the stock!
The Dividend Advantage
One thing's for sure, dividend stocks are not a get-rich-quick scheme. Dividends will seldom provide investors with large, immediate returns on their money. Dividend stocks do, however, supply their investors with that rare but crucial combination of capital gains and cash flow. Thus, when you buy quality dividend stocks, you have two ways to make money:
- Capital Gains - The stock price goes up, so your shares are worth more than you originally bought them for, and
- Dividends - The company whose stock you bought rewards its shareholders with (usually) quarterly dividend payments.
We can draw comparisons to dividend stocks within the real estate market by looking at multi-family apartment units. These investment properties, as long as they yield positive cash flow, make good investments because while the buildings themselves appreciate in value (capital gains), the investor also receives monthly revenue from the tenants (dividends).
Dividends by the Numbers
Still need more reasons to invest in dividend stocks? Let's take a look at the numbers and compare dividend-paying stocks to stocks that do not pay dividends.
There is a general misconception about dividend stocks that they are "boring" or simply don't perform as well as growth stocks. Doing a simple bit of research will tell you that this feeling is simply not true. In, fact, from the years 1970 through 2005, dividend-paying S&P 500 Stocks have outperformed non-dividend-paying S&P 500 Stocks by nearly six percentage points (10.19% to 4.39%).*
High-quality dividend stocks with good dividend yields will always make for rock-solid investments. Now that you've seen the evidence that dividend stocks are the best way to build long-term wealth, head over to our list of best dividend stocks for several great investment ideas.
* Source: Ned Davis Research, www.ndr.com
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