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By James Early, BBAE Chief Investment Officer You’d be a moron to invest in dividend stocks. At least that’s what the data show this year: As I type, the S&P 500 is up 9.4%, yet the iShares Select Dividend ETF (NYSE:DVY) is down 9.4%. (The S&P 500 equal-weight index splits the difference at -0.43%.) But you might have been a moron to not invest in dividend stocks overall. Why Dividend Stocks Outperform A Financial Times chart, using data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds, showed the growth of $100 invested in 1973 until February of 2021. Specifically:  $100 grew to $4,744 if invested in an equal-weighted S&P 500 index $100 grew to $8,942 if invested in dividend-paying

By James Early, BBAE Chief Investment Officer You’d be a moron to invest in dividend stocks. At least that’s what the data show this year: As I type, the S&P 500 is up 9.4%, yet the iShares Select Dividend ETF (NYSE:DVY) is down 9.4%. (The S&P 500 equal-weight index splits the difference at -0.43%.) But you might have been a moron to not invest in dividend stocks overall. Why Dividend Stocks Outperform A Financial Times chart, using data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds, showed the growth of $100 invested in 1973 until February of 2021. Specifically:  $100 grew to $4,744 if invested in an equal-weighted S&P 500 index $100 grew to $8,942 if invested in dividend-paying

By James Early, BBAE Chief Investment Officer You’d be a moron to invest in dividend stocks. At least that’s what the data show this year: As I type, the S&P 500 is up 9.4%, yet the iShares Select Dividend ETF (NYSE:DVY) is down 9.4%. (The S&P 500 equal-weight index splits the difference at -0.43%.) But you might have been a moron to not invest in dividend stocks overall. Why Dividend Stocks Outperform A Financial Times chart, using data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds, showed the growth of $100 invested in 1973 until February of 2021. Specifically:  $100 grew to $4,744 if invested in an equal-weighted S&P 500 index $100 grew to $8,942 if invested in dividend-paying

On CNBC’s “Halftime Report Final Trades,” Stephanie Link of Hightower said Halliburton Company (NYSE:HAL) “had a great quarter” and “their margins are going on higher.” Although the “stock was up a lot,” it is a good time to take advantage of the 7% pullback over the past two weeks, she stated. JPMorgan Private Bank’s Anastasia Amoroso chose iShares Select Dividend ETF (NASDAQ:DVY) saying dividend-paying stocks can “compete with cash at 4.3% yield.” The ETF gives exposure to pharmaceuticals, broader healthcare staples and energy, she added. Check out other stocks making moves in the premarket. Jim Lebenthal of Cerity Partners said that Kinder Morgan Inc. (NYSE:KMI) was “yielding 6.1%” wit