I Love This Dividend Investing Thingie

[rnsmth]

I am walloping the S&P on the metric that make the most sense to my style, namely dividend yield. Yield without dividend growth can lead one into the error of yield chasing. I do not know what the dividend growth is among the over 400 S&P 500 companies that are currently paying a dividend, but I am sure I am competitive with it - the estimate from

http://www.factset.com/websitefiles/PDFs...d_12.16.13

is for an 8.5% dividend growth rate in 2014. I think I will be around or a little above, with a portfolio current yield of 3.9%

I am satisfied with that performance. I am pleased to be getting close to half of my annual total return goal from dividends