Ranking The S&P MidCap 400 Stocks By Dividend And Earnings Yields

In my previous post, I tried to rank all the stocks that are included in the S&P 500 index by the sum of their dividend and earnings yields. In this article, I did the same for all stocks that are included in the S&P MidCap 400 index. S&P MidCap 400 Description from Standard & Poor's: The S&P MidCap 400® provides investors with a benchmark for mid-sized companies. The index covers over 7% of the U.S. equity market, and seeks to remain an accurate measure of mid-sized companies, reflecting the risk and return characteristics of the broader mid-cap universe on an on-going basis Definition of Earnings Yield by Investopedia: The earnings per share for the most recent 12-month period divided by the current market price per share. The earnings yield (which is the inverse of the P/E ratio) shows the percentage of each dollar invested in the stock... Read more