Dividend Investors Won't Want to Overlook This Beaten-Down Growth Stock

Many dividend investors focus too much on a stock's current dividend yield. That can shortchange their returns.That's clear from the total returns generated by dividend stocks over the last half-century. While dividend payers have produced a 9.2% average annual return, according to data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds, there's a huge disparity. Dividend growers and initiators have produced a 10.2% average annual total return, while companies with no change in their dividend policy have only deliv ...