01-12-2016, 04:38 PM
(01-12-2016, 04:10 PM)ClockworkDividends Wrote: Furthermore, and maybe you guys would like to chime in on this, it would be interesting to see how dividend stocks compare to capital growth stocks. It seems to me that DG stocks are a bit like having your cake and eating it too, but there must be something I'm missing. perhaps capital gains grow more quickly?
My answer to this one is that I would gladly switch to growth investing in a heartbeat, if someone would just lend me their crystal ball for a little while. If you can consistently pick the right growth stocks, and buy and sell them at the right time, you'll trounce dividend growth investing (and most other strategies as well). But it is a nearly impossible task, and even more so for those of us with families and jobs and the such. One of the main advantages of DGI is that it is a fairly easy and forgiving strategy that can be successfully used by us mortals.