These S&P 500 Stocks Created The Highest Shareholder Return Over The Past 25 Years

The S&P 500 had total returns of 7.2% a year over the last 25 years. At this rate, the S&P 500 doubled investor wealth every 10 years.

Investors often think of dividend stocks as stodgy slow growers that offer current income but little in the way of capital appreciation. This is often not the case.

In fact, if you look at the top 15 dividend stocks of the past 25 years, you'll see that even the worst of them way outperforms the market.

To find the 15 best-performing dividend stocks of the last 25 years, we reviewed the dividend history of all dividend-paying stocks in the S&P 500. Businesses that paid dividends from 1990 through 2015 without missing more than one year were included as dividend stocks.

Here are the 15 best stocks from the large index with the highest total return of the past 25 years.

11 Stocks That Make Private Investors To Millionaires And Pay Dividends

Long-term buy-and-hold stock investments can make investors rich. All you need is to be disciplined, have patience and a bit of luck. 

The trick to making big money is to pick stocks that grow earnings and dividends year after year and be patient. For sure not every stock created million out of 10 thousand bucks but the possibility is much higher than betting or gambling.

The good thing by investing money into quality stocks is that you could receive a good return. It means that you keep your money alive if you don't have a ten bagger.

Today I like to show you those stocks that make normal investors to millionaires over decades. That's a pretty amazing strategy. Buy and hold stocks and get paid off while you have done nothing.

At the bottom of this article is a table of 13 stocks each of which turned a $10,000 investment into millions of dollars.

These are the dividend paying results...

8 Best Stocks For The Long-Run While You Are On Holiday

Once a great opportunity has presented itself – and you’ve purchased the stock – what do you do? The answer is at once incredibly simple and incredibly difficult to follow: Do nothing.

Doing nothing is a core principle of both dividend growth investing and the Buffett-Munger approach to buying high quality businesses trading at fair or better prices. When you buy a high quality business, all you have to do is sit back and let it compound your wealth.

The truth is, it is hard to do nothing. It is easier to buy and sell stocks. All of the activity gives us the illusion that we are in control. In reality, doing less in investing is being in control. It is much easier to sleep at night knowing you are invested in high quality businesses that you are comfortable holding for the long run.

Attached are 8 Do-Nothing stocks that offer in my view a solid fundament for further research while still paying solid dividends. High yielding Do-Nothing stocks are very rare.

These are the results:

66 Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week

Attached is a full list of the latest Dividend Growers. Those stocks have announced a dividend hike during the past trading week.

66 stocks raised their dividends within the past week. 19 of them have a cheap forward P/E of less than 15.

You can find the biggest stocks in the attached list. Regional Banks are the cheapest growth stocks with expected EPS growth over 5 percent for the next half-decade.

The best yielding stocks with a 2 billion+ market cap can be found the following list. Oil and gas pipeline stocks dominating.

66 Dividend Growth Stocks Of The Week

Mondelez, Siomon Property, Energy Transfer Partners, Amphenol, Stanley Black & Decker, Magellan Midstream and Republic Services are the biggest stocks with dividend growth. Which stocks do you like?

Here are the all of the 66 dividend growers of the past week....

These High-Yield Stocks Go Ex-Dividend In The Upcoming Week

I love stocks that go ex-dividend soon, because of the fast dividend payment I receive. It doesn't really matter because the next payment will normally come within the next 3 months.

However, attached is a list of the highest yielding stocks that go ex-dividend within the upcoming week. The full list can be found here: Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week July 27 – Aug 02, 2015.

Below is a current stock list of dividend stocks (common shares, preferred shares and American Depositary Receipts – ADR’s), paying forthcoming dividends and having their ex-dividend within the week July 27 – Aug 02, 2015. The average dividend-yield amounts to 4.85 percent.

High-Yield Ex-Dividend Stocks Of The Next Week July 27 – Aug 02, 2015

Realty Income, a monthly dividend paying stock is on the list. I personally like Ford. Many guru's bought General Motors. Beware the cyclical sector. The financial crisis 2007 hit both companies hard.

REITS, Pipeline stocks and Oil companies dominating the list. You must definitely a tough investor to put money into those stocks.

If I go down the list with lower yields and less risky business models, I love PAYX, AES, CALM, ADT, EV, ETN, CAG, AMTD, TAP, HAS and some more. Which stocks do you like?