8 Sector And Dow March Dividend Dominance Report

This end of month installment summarizes a series of eight articles that compared relative strengths of stock sectors by (1) yield and (2) dividend vs. price gaps using projected annual dividends from $1,000 invested in the ten highest yielding stocks in each sector for March. Results for the Dow index were included as a baseline standard. This effort was part of an ongoing one to respond to the question, "which dividend stocks were good, better, best, bad, or ugly, in March?" The research was also in keeping with 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." Thus this article graphically depicted the gyrations. Dogs of the Index Metrics Selected Ten in Each... Read more