Over the past few weeks, I’ve been revealing to StreetAuthority.com readers how my research team and I honed in on “The 10 Stocks to Own For the Rest of Your Life.” #-ad_banner-#I explained how “Irreplaceable Assets” can shower investors with increased wealth for the long haul here and how we use a very unique set of criteria to find the “World’s Greatest Businesses” here. But there’s still one more vital trait that we used to find our elite group of “Forever Stocks.” See, perhaps more than anything, my Forever Stocks have an obsession with… Read More
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been revealing to StreetAuthority.com readers how my research team and I honed in on “The 10 Stocks to Own For the Rest of Your Life.” #-ad_banner-#I explained how “Irreplaceable Assets” can shower investors with increased wealth for the long haul here and how we use a very unique set of criteria to find the “World’s Greatest Businesses” here. But there’s still one more vital trait that we used to find our elite group of “Forever Stocks.” See, perhaps more than anything, my Forever Stocks have an obsession with paying shareholders rich, growing dividends. As an investor, this makes perfect sense. Since 1926 nearly half of the market’s total return came from dividends, according to Standard & Poor’s research. In other words, if you ignore dividends, then your potential for long-term growth is cut in half. You’d also be ignoring some of the market’s best performers. From January 1972 through March 2014, dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500 returned 9.3% on average annually, according to Ned Davis Research. That far exceeds the 2.4% annual return for S&P stocks that… Read More