Three supercharged income stocks have the catalysts necessary to pad the pocketbooks of patient investors.

For more than a century, the stock market has reigned supreme as the most-decorated wealth creator. No asset class has come close to matching the average annual return of stocks -- and with thousands of publicly traded companies to choose from, there's likely one or more securities that can help you reach your investment goals.

But among the countless ways to grow your wealth, buying and holding high-quality dividend stocks tends to be among the most successful strategies.

In The Power of Dividends: Past, Present, and Future , the researchers at Hartford Funds, in collaboration with Ned Davis Research, compared the annualized returns of dividend stocks to non-payers over a 51-y

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