West Loop Financial LLC7 Myths About Dividend-Paying Stocks – West Loop Financial LLC https://www.westloopfinancial.com Evolutionize Site Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:50:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.22 7 Myths About Dividend-Paying Stocks https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2014/02/24/7-myths-about-dividend-paying-stocks/ https://www.westloopfinancial.com/2014/02/24/7-myths-about-dividend-paying-stocks/#respond Mon, 24 Feb 2014 20:58:29 +0000 http://evolvemypractice.com/?p=668 The most common misconception among investors may be the value of investing in dividend-paying stocks. Almost every week, someone contacts me to extol the virtues of investing in what they call “high quality, dividend-yielding securities.” Often, their interest is spurred by the recent high performance of these stocks. According to one paper by Gregg S. Fisher, published...

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]]> The most common misconception among investors may be the value of investing in dividend-paying stocks. Almost every week, someone contacts me to extol the virtues of investing in what they call “high quality, dividend-yielding securities.” Often, their interest is spurred by the recent high performance of these stocks. According to one paper by Gregg S. Fisher, published in the Journal of Financial Planning, the FTSE High Dividend Yield index of U.S. stocks returned a whopping 26 percent between the period of Jan. 1, 2011 and Sept. 30, 2012. During the same period, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell short, returning 19 percent.

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