Best dividend stocks?
Total return is what matters. Dividends stocks are a fugazi
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If you're buying extreme value stocks for dividend might as well buy bonds instead and mix it up with growth stocks.
I would just buy a high dividend ETF. I would also ignore everyone aboves advice about only buying high growth stocks. Over the past century high dividend value stocks have consistently outperformed growth stocks. Yes growth stocks have outperformed the last decade, but that is irregular and if I had to guess is unlikely to be the case for the coming decades
Companies today prefer to stock buybacks instead of dividends since it's more tax efficient
That's why companies say they like buybacks, although reality is mostly because it helps with CEOs stock options verse dividends hurt stock options. It also allows CEOs to be more flexible since no one notices if you lower buybacks and everyone notices when dividends go down. With that said a bunch empirical analysis shows CEOs are terrible at timing buybacks and shareholders are be better off with consistent dividends.
Don’t buy for dividends