After Reviewing the Dividend Growth Landscape SCHD Just Outperformed the S&P 500 By Nearly 8 Points and These Are the 3 Core Funds That Belong in Every Long Term Portfolio

The dividend growth trade is doing something unusual in 2026: it is crushing the broad market. The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) is up roughly 17% year to date, while the S&P 500 has returned about 8% over the same stretch. That is an outperformance gap of roughly several percentage points in less than ... After Reviewing the Dividend Growth Landscape SCHD Just Outperformed the S&P 500 By Nearly 8 Points and These Are the 3 Core Funds That Belong in Every Long Term Portfolio