The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF offers an above-average yield while balancing safety and long-term stability.

If you have $5,000 you can afford to invest in the stock market, a good option is to put that money into an investment that can generate recurring dividend income, while also having the potential to rise in value in the long run. That can put your money to work in multiple ways, potentially accumulating gains over time while also generating some good cash flow for your portfolio.

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) can be excellent options to consider because they can give you a balanced investment into many stocks, possibly even hundreds or thousands of them. That means you don't have to worry about how individual stocks are doing.

From a dividend investor's point of view, that a

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