Coulda', shoulda', woulda'. If I'd put all my money in FB at IPO I'd be using T-Bills for kindling, too bad I despise social media. Metro, on the other hand, may not blow the doors off but it's best in class and unless you need a 6% yield for income (in which case the lack of dividend reinvestment significantly impacts compounded returns) why would you care? Investors with six-figure incomes are better off with capital gains vs. dividends anyway making high-yield stocks a lesser choice for taxable accounts. By and large, they're also riskier. Mr. Heinzl's article was specifically intended to point out that a stock yielding only 1.7% should not be dismissed when superior management has grown the business as well as the dividend substantially and generated steady, above-average total returns over the course of many years. Some dividend investors screen for lower yields and automatically reject a stock on that basis. It's a mistake.