Comparing 2 Dividend Strategies: Redux

Two years ago, we created a dividend watch list and compared that list to the one created by Scott's Investments at around the same period of time. Both stock lists were generated after the close of market on Friday October 8, 2010 and before the stock market opened on Monday October 11, 2010. A month and a half after the lists were created, we submitted an article titled "Comparing Two Dividend Strategies" in which we compared the relative performance of both lists. The stock list created by Scott's Investments was focused on companies that had dividend yields of 4% or greater. The stock list that we created had a focus on companies that have had a dividend increasing policy of ten years or more and were within 20% of their respective 52-week low. Understandably, some argued that it was disingenuous to compare two stocks lists after such a short period... Read more