But you don’t have to be a multibillionaire like Ballmer to have a portfolio of dividend-paying stocks. Although Americans on the upper rungs of the economic ladder continue to own the lion’s share of stock in the United States, data from the Federal Reserve’s Survey of Consumer Finances show that 58% of U.S. families owned stocks in 2022 — the highest level ever recorded by the survey, and a sizable increase from the 32% ownership rate recorded in 1989. The data show stock ownership expanding among lower- ...

Key Points The Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF offers the most diversification. The Vanguard ETF competes against ETFs like the SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend Yield ETF and Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF. Vanguard's ETF is different in a key way, but it falls behind in another, perhaps more important, way. 10 stocks we like better than Vanguard Whitehall Funds - Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF › As the name of the Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (NYSEMKT: VYM) says, it is a dividend-cen ...

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