Forget SCHD: Buy Dividend Aristocrats Instead
Summary
- The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF has performed reasonably well over the years.
- However it has underperformed a similar strategy, which is buying a diversified portfolio of Dividend Aristocrat stocks.
- The Dividend Aristocrats have beaten the S&P 500 since their inception in 1990, SCHD has underperformed slightly.
- The Dividend Aristocrats have also beaten SCHD over the last 10 years.
- In this article I make the case that SCHD is uninteresting due to the availability of better alternatives.
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