At the same time, stock dividends carry lucrative tax advantages and offer the ability beat inflation as companies raise their payouts. InvestorPlaceInvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Dr. Jeremy Siegel had an interesting point of view on dividend stocks earlier this month. Source: Simon Cunningham via Flickr Siegel went so far to say that the future is going to look like the 1950's and 1960's - when investors bought stocks solely for their dividends.