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These 2 Dividend Payers Are Outpacing the S&P 500
In periods of rising inflation and slowing economic growth, such as what we’re currently experiencing, there is one constant that investors can count on, and that is the reliability of dividend stocks to bolster their portfolios. The asset managers at Hartford Funds looked at the performance of the benchmark S&P 500 going all the way back to 1930 and found that dividends contributed 40% to the total return of the index over that 91-year period. Through decades that featured depressions and world wars, recessions, and pandemics, dividends have always generated positive returns.
