Hey You, Dividend Investor, Are You Doing It Wrong?

Investment Thesis Investing for Immediate income outperforms more conservative established investment within a 35 to 38-year time frame - longer than most find themselves actively investing or retired. I recast my projects and fine-tuned the process due to concerns about the previously included ETF.
A Simple Definition Due to previous confusion, whenever I write concerning immediate income investing, I feel it is necessary to define what I'm speaking of when doing so. I define immediate income investing as: Investing with a taxable account seeking immediate high return via dividends.
Due to this focus, I am not concerned with total return or overly focused on capital appreciation. I am a long-term buy and hold investor who is willing to sell if necessary. I often explain you can milk your cows or slaughter them to unlock value - I'd rather milk them.
Three S&P 500 Representative Stocks - AKA "Safe Dividends"
For the three representative stocks, I used: Coca-Cola (KO), Procter & Gamble (PG), and Emerson Electric (EMR). Together, these three stocks have an average yield of 3.1% and a 3-year average dividend growth rate of 4.11%.
Sure Dividends - Dividend Kings
For this comparison redo, I decided against using a singular ETF like the ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NOBL) due to its history of cutting the dividend - meaning it itself failed the Aristocrat test. To replace it, I used the Dividend Kings listing from Sure... Read more