50 Top Yield Stocks In 5 Indices: A Fish CCC/Carnevale Dog Show

This new monthly series compares relative strengths of five stock indexes by yield and dividend vs. price gaps using projected annual dividends from $1000 invested in the 10 highest yielding stocks in each index. This is another part of 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 professor Robert Shiller's observation: "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 make conservative preparations for possible bad outcomes." Previous posts in December brought forward the Carnevale Power 25 Index as a dividend dog investment vehicle. (Apologies to Chuck for misspelling his name in the previous article.) December also launched Dogs of the... Read more