Wall Street’s Greatest Dividend Stock — a Small-Cap Company 99% of Investors Have Never Heard of — Is the Cheapest It’s Been in Over a Decade

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What Hartford Funds and Ned Davis Research found was that income stocks more than doubled the average annual return of non-payers — 9.17% versus 4.27% — and did so while being less volatile than the benchmark S&P 500. However, high-quality dividend stocks don’t grow on trees and require some effort by investors to uncover.