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If an income investor had only five minutes to pick between shares of Best Buy and GameStop, the former seems to be the better bet.
A standard Best Buy location. Image credit: The Motley Fool.
It seems safe to say that Best Buy (BBY 0.04%) and GameStop (GME +0.01%) leave a lot to be desired when it comes to the potential for large increases in their share prices, but the investment thesis in these companies becomes brighter when dividends are thrown into the mix.
If we compare Best Buy to GameStop in terms of the three most-important dividend metrics, as I do in the brief slideshow below, we find that:
Similarities aside, if an income investor had to choose between these two stocks based off these three metrics alone, then Best Buy seems to take the cake. To see why, simply scroll through the brief slideshow below.
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