9 Growth Stocks That Also Pay Dividends

Analysts recommend these dividend-paying growth stocks.

Most high-growth companies reinvest every spare dime into expanding their businesses. However, one of the first things companies do when growth finally starts to level off is to begin returning excess cash to shareholders via dividend payments. Fortunately, there are a handful of companies that generate impressive growth numbers and also pay dividends. Many of these dividend-paying growth stocks are expanding via acquisitions, but some are still growing organically.

Here are nine growth stocks Morningstar analysts recommend that have generated at least 9% average annual revenue growth over the past five years and pay at least 1% dividend yields.

This post originally appeared at U.S. News & World Report.