The Hard Truth Of Dividend-Growth Investing

Dividend-Growth Investing has become popular among investors wanting stability in a volatile market. The markets go up and the markets go down, but your dividend check keeps on growing every year on through retirement. You can find such stocks by copying the S&P High Yield Dividend Aristocrats index, the Dividend Achievers Select index or the Challengers, Contenders and Champions list compiled by David Fish. While these lists create quick shortcuts to finding dividend growth stocks, these same lists do not convey accurate historical performance figures of the dividend growth strategy…and neither do these lists claim to. What you will not find on these lists are stocks that froze or cut dividends and others that went belly up. What you have is a list of stock market survivors which does not tell you about the attrition and devastation to a portfolio that followed this strategy over the past 10 years.... Read more