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      Vanguard recently started offering a savings account that currently has a 4.15% APY (their ‘cash plus’ account).

      If OP wants to park the money in a savings account for easier access than a mutual fund, that’s both a more reliable institution and a better rate.

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      $10,000 at 4% gives you $400 interest in one year.

      Just about any decent dividend stock will outperform that. Look at PET for example. It is sitting at $3.65/share right now and offers a quarterly dividend of $0.30. That puts you at $1.20/share per year. 10k = 2739 shares = $3,286.80 dividend payout in one year.

      Banks are the worst place to put investments. Money in bank accounts are only supposed to be there if you need it liquid, like an emergency fund or your checking account.

      *PETS

      PETMED EXPRESS INC COM

      For all the nay sayers downvoting me as if it is impossible to find dividend stocks that outperform their precious SPY or high yield savings rates, here is a great list I found with shit loads. I count 60 different stocks that offer 10% yields or more. 100 in total all offering over 8% -double what some bullshit ‘high yield’ savings offers.

      https://www.tradingview.com/markets/stocks-usa/market-movers-high-dividend/

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          Little under 30k in higher risk dividend. Bring in about 800 a month.

          I have a mix of large cap, small cap growth stocks, then dividend high risk and low risk. Stock like this (I do not own PETS, I was just using it as an example) would be a high risk due to its price instability. But you mitigate that with stop loss orders.

          I have a vanguard/roth for my longs (large cap growths and stable dividends with DRIP) and then use etrade for the small cap or high risk ones. I like their tax documents and easy interface.

          People make arguments against dividend stocks, I simply call it a different strategy. Some years it beats out my growths, some years it is about on par. Depends on where I have it at the time and slightly more market dependant.

          I have recently gotten into ex-date chasing. While it has increased the returns, it is more work.

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          9 hours ago

          PETS, sorry, don’t know why my phone cut off the ‘S’.

          PETMED EXPRESS INC COM

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            I just checked the top 3 companies there and every share price is through the floor lol