These companies offer high-yielding and steadily rising dividends. Investing in dividend stocks is a meaningful aspect of my investing strategy. They enable me to generate passive income, which I use to compound my income by reinvesting the cash into buying more dividend-paying stocks. Dividend stocks have also historically outperformed non-dividend-payers, offering a 9.2% annualized return, versus 4.3% over the last 50 years, according to data from Ned Davis Research and Hartford Funds. Dividend growers ha ...