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The Smartest High-Yield Dividend Stocks in Warren Buffett's "Secret Portfolio" to Buy Right Now

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Warren Buffett has a portfolio of stocks that doesn't appear on Berkshire Hathaway 's regulatory filings.

Buffett owns 225,900 shares of Ares Capital NEAM , giving Buffett an indirect stake in the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC) Duke Energy is a safe haven with solid growth opportunities.

Verizon Communications has increased its dividend for 18 consecutive years .

The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team identified what they believe are the 10 best stocks for investors to buy now and Ares Capital wasn’t one of them.

The 10 stocks that made the cut could produce monster returns in the coming years .

Consider when Netflix made this list on December 17, 2004 ... if you invested $ 1,000 at the time of our recommendation, you’d have $ 614,911 !.

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