Better Dividend Stock: Alphabet vs. AT&T

Investors looking to grow their passive income stream with dividend stocks have two basic options. dividend payers that raise their payouts rapidly tend to offer low yields up front, while higher-yielding stocks tend to increase their payouts slowly, if at all.

Right now, (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) and AT (NYSE: T) represent opposite ends of the dividend investors' dilemma. Profit that could be used to boost dividend payments are surging for the parent company behind Google and YouTube, but it offers a very low yield. AT offers a high yield, but earnings have been rising AT a snail's pace.

Let's take a closer look at both to see which could be a better fit for your portfolio.

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