It takes money to make money. However, you don't need a lot to get started. Many top-notch dividend stocks have share prices below $100 right now. That's worth noting, given the powerful returns that dividend stocks have produced over the long term.

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The annualized dividend paid by AbbVie is $6.56/share, currently paid in quarterly installments, and its most recent dividend ex-date was on 01/15/2025

Many stocks don't offer particularly high yields. The stocks in the S&P 500, for instance, average a yield of just 1.3%. That's not a terribly exciting rate of return on dividends for income investors.

After back-to-back years of significant gains for the S&P 500, led by the Magnificent 7 stocks, many of the other 493 stocks in the venerable index have traded sideways to down. The staggering poor breadth of the market at specific points in 2024 rivals some of the biggest in stock market history.