Dividends are important for
investors because they pay down your investment and reduce risk. Growing
dividends are good but only a small group of companies could grow their
dividends year over year.
Look at General
Electric. The company reduced its dividends within the financial crisis but
paid investors cash. Is GE a bad stock? No, definitely not.
There are times in
which the company has problems but for the long-term the business perspectives
should become better due to a stronger and growing economy. This should not
work for every company but for the average stock market.
Today I like to
show you the 7 best dividend paying stocks that paid a dividend for more than a
century, over 100 years or more.
These are the results:
These are the results: