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1 No-Brainer Dividend ETF to Buy Right Now for Passive Income

While Wall Street focuses on tech and AI stocks, many dividend ETFs are outperforming the S&P 500 this year while delivering meaningful income.

1 No-Brainer Dividend ETF to Buy Right Now for Passive Income

Published July 14, 2026 · Category: Finance

Overview

The stock market narrative continues to center around tech, semiconductor, and artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. That's fair given recent returns and the sheer amount of money going into AI development. But it also overshadows the fact that a number of other non-tech themes are beating the S&P 500 (SNPINDEX: ^GSPC) this year.

Value stocks, quality stocks, and dividend stocks (especially high yielders) have all outperformed the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEMKT: VOO) so far in 2026. A lot of that outperformance came in the first quarter of the year when the "Magnificent Seven" stocks started to fall out of favor. But these groups have all maintained a high level of resilience even during more volatile periods recently.

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