why chase the market when we can let 15 per year—every year—come to us this is the perfect time to buy what i call “hidden yield” investments these are stocks that dish out dividends today but more notably they have an important catalyst coming in the year ahead that will help boost their stock prices this trigger is so powerful that it sends these stocks sailing by 15 or more per year every year which is truly great when other equities and even bonds are getting buried around us we’ll talk about these stocks and their “dividend spark” in a moment first let’s get back to why now this bear market started in january we identified the train wreck quickly with a “look out ahead” with the federal reserve finally tightening the bear’s arrival was all but inevitable but let’s remember that bear markets are much shorter than bull markets on average they only last ten months or so our current bear is in month nine my point cue the stones is that time is on our side and while turbulence ahead is likely we can use that to our advantage and accumulate the 15peryear stocks for cheap l3harris technologies lhx is one such opportunity its headline yield is one we would usually yawn at—lhx pays 19 today and it’s rare for this current dividend to pop above two but lhx over time is the type of safe dividend stock that makes us rich since the start of 2010 the stock has returned 393 to investors most of that has come from price gains but we can thank the dividend for it you see lhx’s payout acted like a “dividend magnet” that pulled its price higher yes sometimes investing is this simple the payout increased by 409 this is no coincidence every time the rate of the payout increase leaps ahead of the dividend the stock price catches up that’s the dividend magnet at work baby of course this is past performance but the future is looking bullish too not for warm and fuzzy reasons i’ll admit lhx makes what the us needs to compete with china militarily especially on the seas it’s a leader in antiair warfare for us navy ships and aircraft the company is due for its next dividend increase in march mark this catalyst on the calendar let’s apply this magnet hunt to utility stocks utilities have done well this year because investor “refugees” have swarmed from bad ideas like profitless tech and crypto “utes” the old school dividend stocks are back in vogue that’s nice from a price standpoint but it’s challenging to put new money to work after all when stocks are popular it means their yields are lower not good for us purists who are in it for the dividends again a simple yet successful formula we buy the dividends that are growing the fastest nextera energy nee has been a favorite of ours for this reason for years nee is the largest developer of renewable energy in north america it’s one of the fastest dividend growers in the utility space nee is one of those great dividend stocks that is rarely cheap because everyone knows it’s awesome in fact chief financial officer cfo  kirk crews recently said ten percent payout hikes are likely for the next couple of years doubledigit yearly dividend raises from a safe utility—does it get any better than that brett owens is chief investment strategist for contrarian outlook for more great income ideas get your free copy his latest special report your early retirement portfolio huge dividends—every month—forever