Here's something --- I've just been checking certain stocks this morning and thought of this -- or "found" this and thought it useful..... it's something that would never come up in any "criteria" search.... and as my favorite saying is -- Better LUCKY than smart....
Cisco (CSCO) in July 2011 began paying a dividend -- it paid .06 a share per quarter.... PALTRY by any standard (.35%)... but here we are 6 years later -- and it now pays .29 cents per quarter.
Had you been lucky enough to have bought it - and held it - your cost would be $15.74 a share.... you'd be UP 126% and you'd be earning 7.36% dividend on your original investment.
OH BUDDY --- yeah that's what TIME and a little bit of luck gets you.
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