Brazen Yield Gyrations Of Dog Stocks In 8 Sectors

Last week, your intrepid Dogs of the Index strategist applied dog dividend methodology in a new forward test of the Dogs of the Index metrics to each of eight major market sectors: basic materials, consumer goods, financial, healthcare, industrial goods, services, technology, and utilities. This new monthly series compares relative strengths of eight stock sectors by yield using projected annual dividends from $1000 invested in the ten highest yielding stocks in each sector. This is a new chapter in an ongoing effort to respond to the question, "which dividend stocks are good, better, best, bad or ugly?" The effort also aims to uncover strong evidence of the need to heed Yale economics professor Robert Shiller's admonition: "People still place too much confidence in the markets and have too strong a belief that paying attention to the gyrations in their investments will someday make them rich, and so they do not... Read more