Dividend Stocks vs S&P 500: 50 Years of Data Finally Settles It

Dividend Stocks vs S&P 500: 50 Years of Data Finally Settles It

Published: October 17, 2026

Duration: 6:45

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Dividend investors who collected and reinvested through the lost decade of the 2000s scraped out roughly 2% annually while pure price investors ended the decade with less than they started โ€” and almost nobody talks about that number when theyโ€™re arguing for growth. This video runs 50 years of Ned Davis data showing dividend growers averaged 10.22% annually with significantly less volatility than non-payers, then walks through why the 2010s flipped the script entirely and what 2026โ€™s ro...