The Argus Dividend Growth Model Portfolio

Argus

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Dec 19, 2025

Summary

Dividend income is often overlooked amid gyrations successful the banal market. Consider that successful 2024, marketplace bulls were boasting astir 24%-plus S&P 500 returns. No 1 was precise focused connected the wide marketplace index's 1.2% dividend yield. But dividends are an important constituent of return, and 2025 for a portion was bearing that out. Through May, the S&P 500 was up a bladed 1.1%; without dividends, determination was fundamentally nary returns astatine all. Indeed, dividend income accounted for 42% of the full instrumentality of the S&P 500 betwixt 1930 and 2012, according to Hartford Funds. And that's conscionable the average. In immoderate of those decades, dividends accounted for much than 50% of full returns and adjacent 100% of returns. More recently, dividends person relationship