Buying dividend stocks is one of the best decisions investors can make. Over the past 100 years, dividend payers have handily outperformed non-payers by a wide margin and with less risk. But many people think that dividend investing means you have to settle for slow-growing, boring stocks that offer dull yields. Chasing high yield is indeed a fool’s errand and very risky because ultra-high-yield stocks often have problems. The yield spikes as the stock price falls, which may indicate underlying issues, whet ...