Dividend investing involves buying stocks that pay a regular cash distribution on a quarterly or annual basis. Investors can either choose to have these dividends paid into their brokerage accounts or reinvested to buy more shares of the company.
Using the stock-screening tools available on online brokers to select companies that pay high yields can be a good passive income investing strategy. But such an approach is often backward-looking and fails to consider a company’s future prospects.
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