Ranking The Russell 1000 Stocks By Dividend And Earnings Yields

In my previous posts (here and here), I tried to rank all the stocks that are included in the S&P 500 and in the S&P MidCap 400 indexes by the sum of their dividend and earnings yields. In this article, I did the same for all stocks that are included in the Russell 1000 index. Russell 1000 Description from Russell Investments: The Russell 1000 Index measures the performance of the large-cap segment of the U.S. equity universe. It is a subset of the Russell 3000® Index and includes approximately 1000 of the largest securities based on a combination of their market cap and current index membership. The Russell 1000 represents approximately 92% of the U.S. market. 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... Read more