3 No-Brainer Dividend Stocks to Buy Right Now

You don't have to look very hard to find dividend stocks, particularly among established, stable companies. In fact, Charles Schwab estimates that 80% of the companies represented in the S&P 500 are considered dividend stocks.I love dividend stocks because they pay you to hold them. The best dividend stocks provide a consistent return that returns money to investors on a quarterly -- or, even better, a monthly -- basis, which you can use for regular expenses. And if you're not close to retirement, you can use dividend stocks to make your portfolio grow even faster.Let's look at the S&P 500, in particular. Had you invested $10,000 a decade ago into an index fund, such as the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF, you would have $33,620 to show for your investment. That's not bad. But if you reinvested the dividends that the exchange-traded fund (ETF) pays -- dividends that are a result of all the dividend stocks in that fund -- you'd have $39,670. That shows the power of reinvesting your dividends.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool