Akane Otani

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WSJ Your Money Briefing · Why Dividend Stocks Are Getting More Attention From Investors · 6 May 2022 podcast

You'll often hear financial advisors say, don't just focus on the dividend yield of a certain stock.

So they'll say, don't chase the stock with the highest dividend yield and completely ignore the fundamentals of the company or the profitability prospects for that industry, because that tends to lead to bad results.

Usually, in fact, you'll hear people recommend looking at within the dividend space stocks with the longest track record of consistently paying out the dividends and raising them

which suggests that those companies are on stronger footing and they have stable balance sheets that they're able to use to continue returning cash to shareholders.

So within the dividend space, financial advisors definitely have their own preferences and recommendations for how investors should be approaching stocks.

Investors who want to put money into dividend-paying stocks have a couple of options.

They can always invest in individual stocks.

So they can go out and buy a share of Bank of America or a share of Chevron, but they can also invest in funds.

So there are a lot of ETFs out there that track a basket of dividend-paying stocks.

For instance, there's the iShares Core High Dividend, which tracks 75 different stocks with a track record of paying big dividends.

Investors do have a couple of different options for that.

Well, one thing to keep in mind is that a lot of dividend paying stocks tend to fall within the category of value stocks.

So broadly, if we're going to break up the market into two categories, a lot of investors will say there is value stocks and there's growth stocks.

And a lot of financial advisors would recommend against putting too much of your portfolio into one or the other, because we tend to see different cycles throughout the market where sometimes growth stocks

are really leading the outperformance.

And that was the case for much of the past decade, for instance, and doing really, really well.

And then you'll have times like right now where value stocks are starting to really outperform the broader market.

So in either case, someone who has too many stocks in one category or the other really risks sort of missing out on the broader market's returns.

So I would say financial advisors are sort of wary of people putting too much of their eggs into one basket.

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