Beat the Dow Jones With This Unstoppable Dividend Stock

If you had plunked $10,000 into an index fund or other investment that tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average at the onset of the Great Recession and held on ever since, you'd now have a holding worth a cool $39,000 or so. It's the recession-, inflation-, and e-commerce-resistant demand for the products that these tenants offer -- along with the diversification of its real estate portfolio -- that makes Agree Realty such a safe harbor for dividend investors. This retail REIT currently boasts a collection of 1,839 properties spread across the 48 contiguous U.S. states.