106 "Popular" Dividend Dogs Revealed: 9 Net 12% To 70%

"The power of the pack is in the dog and the power of the dog is in the pack," says an obscure dog poet. For an example see the Dow 30 Industrial dogs. A famous pack strategy popularized by Michael B. O'Higgins in the book "Beating The Dow" (HarperCollins, 1991), revealed how low yielding stocks whose prices increase (and whose dividend yields therefore decrease) could be sold off once each year to sweep gains and reinvest seed money into higher yielding stocks in the same index. Dogs of the Index Metrics Two key numbers determined the yields to rank stocks in the Dow 30 Industrial index: (1) stock price; (2) annual dividend. Dividing the annual dividend by the price of the stock declared the percentage yield by which each dog stock was ranked. Historically dividend dog investors utilized this ranking system to select portfolios of five or... Read more