The Millennium's Best Dividend Stocks

I'm always on the lookout for the next home run stock. At the end of each year, I like looking back to see what I can learn from the best and worst performing stocks over the long term. I make sure to key in on dividend stocks as they have a history of outperforming the market. By examining the top performers of the past 11 years, I want to key in on traits that top performers of the 2010s should have. In my search, the only restriction I set was that the market cap needed to be higher than $500 million, and the companies had to pay dividends every year.

So why have these companies' stocks done so well? You'd figure Wall Street would have caught on, but analysts only have so much time, so many small-cap stocks are often overlooked. That creates a perfect opportunity for enterprising investors to capitalize on Wall Street's lack of vision by getting in on companies on the cheap before Wall Street has discovered them.

Source: Motley Fool

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