The F-Score Dividend Portfolio: Holding Its Own

INTRODUCTION It has been an interesting few weeks in the market lately. Given most companies have now reported their earnings, the Federal Reserve has finally made the taper situation clearer, and that there has been quite a bit of price fluctuations in the market. Let's take a look at how the F-Score Dividend Portfolio is doing. This is the third article since the inception of the F-Score Dividend Portfolio. You can read how we got here by looking at the first and second articles. F-SCORE DIVIDEND PORTFOLIO Let's quickly review what the Piotroski F-Score is. Piotroski started by selecting the top 20% of book-to-market or lowest price-to-book stocks. The nine variables that constitute the F-Score evaluate the financial strength of a stock by using simple accounting based variables. Here are the nine variables used to calculate the F-Score. Each variable gets scored a one (1) if the... Read more