Got $100? This Top Dividend ETF Is a No-Brainer Buy Right Now.

Dividend stocks make great long-term investments. For example, an investor who bought $100 worth of average dividend stocks in 1973 would have seen that investment grow to over $8,700 as of the end of 2023, according to a study from Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research. That's 10 times more than they would have ended up with through those 50 years by investing in the average non-dividend payers (less than $850). That investor would have made even more money (over $14,100) if they used their $100 to buy companies that hiked their dividends. Given the generally superior returns of dividend growers, they're no-brainer investments. One of the easiest ways to invest in the market's top dividend growth stocks is through an exchange-traded fund (ETF) that's focused on them, like the Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEMKT: SCHD).The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF has a simple strategy: It tracks the Dow Jones U.S. Dividend 100 index. The creators of that index designed it to "measure the performance of high-dividend-yielding stocks in the U.S. with a record of consistently paying dividends, selected for fundamental strength relative to their peers, based on financial ratios." Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool