dividends

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If they want income, there’s a problem: Dividends on the S&P are only just over 1%—and only a whisker above their lowest ever, in 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

Dividends, too, are real, tangible things—and investors flocked to them too.

From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026

Dividends are what companies pay when they’ve run out of ideas.

From MarketWatch • Jan. 20, 2026

Dividends no doubt helped cushion some of the blow.

From Barron's • Jan. 8, 2026

Dividends on stocks in cotton companies, worth in May, 1861, $25 to $50 per share, now from $112 to $140.

From A Rebel War Clerk's Diary at the Confederate States Capital by Jones, John Beauchamp