Seeking a Safe Haven in Rising Dividends
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Dividends: corporate America's gift to investors.
Companies in the S&P 500 Index will increase dividends paid to investors this year by 12.3 percent to a total of $323 billion, according to data from Strategas Research Partners founder Jason Trennert. These distributions represent about a third of total net income earned by companies in the index. Even more impressive, dividend growth since WWII has outpaced inflation five-fold (6,000 percent compared to 1,100 percent).