# Dividend Reinvestment Is a Setting – Check It on Every Holding You Own

- Source: Money Crashers
- Published: 2026-10-17T21:45:00+00:00
- Category: Markets
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Reinvested dividends are most of the stock market’s long-run return. Hartford Funds credits them, and the compounding they set off, with 85% of the S&P 500’s cumulative total return from 1960 through 2025. In Hartford’s example, $10,000 invested in 1960... Source

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