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Over the last 50 years, the typical company in the S&P 500 has delivered an average annual total return of 7.7% if we go by the returns of an equal-weighted S&P 500 index. However, there's a wide variation of returns within that index. For example, dividend payers have outperformed dividend non-payers by more than two to one, according to data by Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds (9.2% average annual total return compared to 4.3%). There has also been a wide variation of returns among dividend stocks:Dividend PolicyContinue reading
Over the last 50 years, the typical company in the S&P 500 has delivered an average annual total return of 7.7% if we go by the returns of an equal-weighted S&P 500 index. However, there's a wide variation of returns within that index. For example, dividend payers have outperformed dividend non-payers by more than two to one, according to data by Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds (9.2% average annual total return compared to 4.3%).
There has also been a wide variation of returns among dividend stocks:
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