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Dividend investing has always been popular and it's not hard to understand why.
Since 1870, 66% of the market's historical inflation-adjusted total returns have been from dividends.
(Source: Ben Carlson)
Even factoring in the Great Depression and major economic crises like the Great Recession, the inflation-adjusted growth rate of S&P 500 dividends over the last 100 years has been 2% CAGR or about 5% CAGR in nominal terms.
"Companies will always do their best to protect dividend payments and there is substantial empirical data on the strong signaling effects of dividends for stock