Yesterday And discussed dividends strength and how reinvesting them, through the magic of compounding, causing massive outperformance over a long period of time.
It also shows such as statistics is hardly one that will fire you. After all, in a world where a week long run, you can think of 20 or 30 years into the future? Human nature being what it is, people with enough time to think they know better and people without it wished they could wind back the clock.
Why should You become so focused on the dividend? Because for years they have been a secondary concern. Most investors just lived through a 25-year-old bull market – if we take the 1982 as a starting point and end point as 2007.