Want $2K Per Month in Retirement? Buy These 3 Dividend Stocks Now.

Stock investors who want to receive $2,000 per month in dividend payments first have to do some quick math. A dividend portfolio with stocks valued at$480,000 yielding 5% overall would produce $24,000 in annual dividends. I’ll use that yield as our threshold for the basis of this article. In fact, the stocks discussed below all have yields above 5% meaning a lower value portfolio would produce that return. Generally speaking, a 5% dividend is near the upper bound for risk. Rates higher than that tend to be ...