It’s hard to find more attractive investments than healthy dividend-paying stocks, because they offer a win-win-win proposition: Over time their stock prices should rise, plus they pay dividends to shareholders regularly, plus those dividends tend to be increased over time, too.
That’s a winning combination!
Note, too, that these dividend payments tend to keep being made no matter whether the economy is booming or ailing. Here, then, is one attractive dividend payer to consider: Verizon Communications (NYSE: VZ). Why Verizon Communications?
Let’s start with Verizon’s dividend, because it may be the most compelling thing about the stock. It recently yielded a hefty 6%. It’s also a growing dividend, though it hasn’t been growing super briskly.