Just noticed FG is trading with a yield above 4% lately, which honestly caught my attention. The stock was dipping to around $24.40 recently, and with that quarterly dividend annualized to $1, the yield is solid.

Here's why this matters: most people forget that dividends are actually a huge chunk of stock market returns over time. Like, if you'd bought the Russell 3000 back in 2000 at $78 a share, by 2012 the price barely moved (down to $77.79), so you'd have almost zero capital gains. But the dividends you collected during that period? About $10.77 per share. That alone turned a near-flat return into 13%+ gains. Pretty wild difference.

FG is part of the Russell 3000, so it's got that large-cap credibility. The thing with dividend stocks is they're not always consistent—they follow company profits up and down. So whether that 4% yield on FG actually holds depends on whether the company can maintain those payouts. Worth digging into the dividend history before jumping in, but a sustainable 4% yield is definitely worth paying attention to in this market.