Are dividend stocks a good investment?

Brian Fricke, CFP®Investing

Periodically we get asked if dividend stocks are a good investment. Here we take a look at a an edition of Kiplinger’s Retirement Report article mentioning eight stocks that they thought looked attractive and paid high dividends. CVS, Exxon Mobile, Honeywell, Apple, Johnson and Johnson, 3M, Verizon, and Walmart. How have these stocks done so far?