Own Dividend-Paying Stocks In Your Retirement Portfolio
Dividend-paying stocks are great choices for your retirement account. Before you retire, you can accumulate shares with dividend reinvestment. And during retirement you can use the dividends as income.
Here are 14 dividend-paying stocks that are appropriate for a retirement account. Many of these stocks have multiyear records of increasing their dividends, which is important to keep ahead of inflation.
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Stock | Quote | Dividend & Dividend Yield | Interactive Price Chart | ||||
| 3M Company | 2.54 (2.30%) |
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| Abbott | 0.56 (1.50%) |
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| Clorox | 2.56 (2.90%) |
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| C. R. Bard | 0.80 (0.70%) |
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| Colgate-Palmolive | 1.36 (2.20%) |
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| Ecolab | 0.92 (1.00%) |
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| General Mills | 1.52 (3.00%) |
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| W.W. Grainger | 3.72 (1.40%) |
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| International Business Machines | 3.80 (1.80%) |
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| Heinz | 2.06 (2.80%) |
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| Kellogg | 1.76 (2.70%) |
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| Kimberly Clark | 3.24 (3.10%) |
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| Piedmont Natural Gas | 1.24 (3.60%) |
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| Proctor & Gamble | 2.41 (3.00%) |
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To follow the day-to-day progress of the Retirement Dividend Stocks portfolio, check out the returns table and chart below. Dollar values are computed using weekly closes for stocks from Yahoo! Finance. All 14 stocks are included in the chart computations. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $714.29 was invested (total of $10,000) in each stock at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2003.
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Retirement Dividend Stocks - Return Results | |
| Portfolio: | Retirement Dividend Stocks |
| Start date: | Jan-02-2003 |
| Start value: | $10,000 |
| End date: | May-23-2013 |
| End value: | $31,518 |
| Number prices | 543 |
| Minimum value occurred on Mar-03-2003 | $9,346 |
| Maximum value occurred on May-13-2013 | $31,854 |
| Total gain or loss (Start date to End date) | 215.18% |
| Annualized gain or loss (Start date to End date) | 11.62% |
| Sharpe Ratio | 0.82 |
| Total dollar value on End date of a $10,000 purchase made on Start date | $31,518 |
| Average percent return for all possible buy/sell combinations | 40.02% |
| Number returns | 147,153 |
| Number profitable returns (Winners) | 137,358 |
| Percent profitable returns | 93.34% |
| Number unprofitable returns (Losers) | 9,795 |
| Percent unprofitable returns | 6.66% |
| Winners to losers ratio | 14.02 |
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