Dividend growth stocks have quietly outperformed the S&P 500 for decades, making Broadcom, Visa, S&P Global, Costco, Mastercard, Texas Instruments, Microsoft, PepsiCo, Starbucks and NVIDIA ten to buy and hold forever. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

Durable dividend stocks such as Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola, Realty Income, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Sherwin-Williams, Visa and Federal Realty can become a lifetime income machine. The key is owning businesses so durable that investors sleep well while dividends and compounding do the work, rather than chasing yield. x.com 

Companies that aggressively grow their dividends have historically crushed the broader market over time. That makes Coca-Cola, Apple, Visa, Realty Income, VICI Properties, Microsoft, Mastercard, American Express, McDonald's, JPMorgan, Johnson & Johnson and PepsiCo high-quality dividend growth stocks to anchor a portfolio. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

Mastercard, Microsoft, MSCI, Intuit, Waste Management, Intercontinental Exchange, Abbott Laboratories and Broadcom are dividend-growth stocks worth retiring on because the companies are just that good. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

Dividend growth, not yield, is the only dividend strategy worth following, since high-income strategies are mainly marketing and dividends are an inefficient form of compounding. Favor high-quality companies with solid balance sheets that raise dividends every year, such as Cintas, Casey's, Givaudan, S&P Global and L'Oréal. Dividend growth strategies have delivered superior returns to high-dividend ones, with considerably lower drawdowns in stress periods such as the March 2020 Covid shock. … Show more

Procter & Gamble's steadily rising dividend shows why boring pays through downturns. It raised its dividend for the 70th straight year in April; the annual payment rose 5.7 times from $0.76 per share in 2001 to $4.36 today, about 7.2% a year through the dot-com crash, 2008, Covid and 2022. It returned $3.9 billion to shareholders in one quarter, while semiconductors are 27% below their high. x.com 

Schwab US Dividend Equity, JPMorgan Nasdaq Equity Premium Income, Vanguard S&P 500 and NEOS S&P 500 High Income together deliver monthly cash flow without selling shares, while SCHD and VOO add growth. The four-ETF portfolio produces almost $48,000 a year of passive income, with a goal of $80,000 by 2028. It is one piece of a wider portfolio, with rental real estate handling growth and tax efficiency. x.com  x.com  x.com 

Nvidia, American Express, Cheesecake Factory, Microsoft, Broadcom, UnitedHealth and Coca-Cola are incredible stocks that also pay you dividends while you own them, a way to make money while you sleep. Current yields: Nvidia 0.48%, American Express 1.05%, Cheesecake Factory 1.45%, Microsoft 0.91%, Broadcom 0.69%, UnitedHealth 2.19% and Coca-Cola 2.50%. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com 

The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF is having a massive year while providing steady passive income. Boring investments held for the long term are how wealth gets built. x.com 

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, American Express, Coca-Cola, McDonald's, JPMorgan Chase and UnitedHealth are stocks worth holding forever. They aren't the flashiest names and won't deliver the best returns, but they offer consistency and can be counted on to keep growing for decades. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com