2 High-Yield Dividend Stocks You'll Wish You Had Bought 10 Years From Now

Are you more interested in overall gains or generating a large stream of passive income? If you're not sure, I've got great news. It doesn't matter. Filling your portfolio with dividend payers is one of the most effective ways to outperform the overall stock market, according to over 50 years of historical data.Between 1973 and 2024, dividend-paying stocks in the benchmark S&P 500 index delivered a 9.2% average annual return. Companies in the same index that didn't pay dividends returned just 4.3% in an average year, according to research from Ned Davis and Hartford Funds.Instead of blindly picking every available dividend stock, let's focus on a couple that tend to raise their payouts at a rapid pace. Despite a good chance that they can keep raising their payouts at a satisfying pace, shares of Novo Nordisk (NYSE: NVO) and Texas Instruments (NASDAQ: TXN) have been beaten down a long way this year. Here's why, a decade from now, you could regret ignoring them while they're trading at beaten-down prices.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool