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By Dividend.com Staff
July 25th, 2008

There is a general misconception about dividend stocks that they are "boring" or simply don't perform as well as growth stocks. Doing a simple bit of research will tell you that this feeling is simply not true. In, fact, from the years 1970 through 2005, dividend-paying S&P 500 Stocks have outperformed non-dividend-paying S&P 500 Stocks by nearly six percentage points (10.19% to 4.39%).

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