Love all of this ... and yet I'm a dividend investor. It's worth noting that the history of the US stock market goes back more than 10 years. Growth has indeed overperformed for the last 10 years! Will it continue to do so? Maybe! Maybe I'll continue to look like an idiot. But, well, the older you get, the more you learn that things change ... that looking back 10 years and declaring that "the past" can get you in a lot of trouble.
, the #1 stock to own over the past 100 years has been Altria, notorious for paying out almost all its income in dividends. Worth thinking about perhaps.
Love all of this ... and yet I'm a dividend investor. It's worth noting that the history of the US stock market goes back more than 10 years. Growth has indeed overperformed for the last 10 years! Will it continue to do so? Maybe! Maybe I'll continue to look like an idiot. But, well, the older you get, the more you learn that things change ... that looking back 10 years and declaring that "the past" can get you in a lot of trouble.
According to
https://www.investopedia.com/these-are-the-best-performing-stocks-of-the-last-century-8680461
, the #1 stock to own over the past 100 years has been Altria, notorious for paying out almost all its income in dividends. Worth thinking about perhaps.
Some very good points! And ya, if you find the right companies that have great yields it’s hard to say they aren’t excellent investments.