3 Top Dividend Stocks to Buy and Hold for the Next 20 Years
Dividend stocks are great long-term investments. They've outperformed non-dividend-paying stocks by more than 2-to-1 over the long term. The best returns have come from companies that pay a growing dividend. Brookfield Renewable (NYSE: BEPC)(NYSE: BEP), Realty Income (NYSE: O), and Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) have multi-decade histories of increasing their dividends. With lots of growth still ahead, they're great dividend stocks to buy and hold for the next couple of decades. Brookfield Renewable has grown its dividend at a 6% compound annual rate since 2001. This marked the 14th straight year that Brookfield hiked its dividend payment by at least 5%. Continue reading
Dividend stocks are great long-term investments. They've outperformed non-dividend-paying stocks by more than 2-to-1 over the long term. The best returns have come from companies that pay a growing dividend.
Brookfield Renewable (NYSE: BEPC)(NYSE: BEP), Realty Income (NYSE: O), and Medtronic (NYSE: MDT) have multi-decade histories of increasing their dividends. With lots of growth still ahead, they're great dividend stocks to buy and hold for the next couple of decades.
Brookfield Renewable has grown its dividend at a 6% compound annual rate since 2001. This marked the 14th straight year that Brookfield hiked its dividend payment by at least 5%.
