StoneMor Leads Momentum Dogs With 9.42% Yield And 25.19% Net Gain As Of December 1, 2016

Summary
Five-star dogs earn stars for: (1) Yield; (2) Momentum; (3) Price Upside; (4) Net Gain; (5) Regular dividend hikes. StoneMor led all.
30 top-gain three- to five-Star equities ranked themselves by yield from 0% to StoneMor's 9.42% as of December 1.
10 Five-Star leaders showed annual yields averaging 5.16%.
Five-Star top dividend dogs by yield charged bullishly after September-October as Dow dogs became meekly bullish.
Top yields were cast by PCL, UVV, PLOW, MO, PM, UHT, CALM, FUN, APTS, and STON; reference points for your mid-December three to five-Star momentum driven dividend dog investment investigation.
Momentous 5-Star Dogs Found
One-year results from Yahoo Finance based on market closing prices on December 1 for 35 stocks from nine sectors were ranked first by one-year momentum, then by yield (dividend/price) to reveal the actionable conclusions discussed below.
See Dow 30 article for an explanation of the term "dogs" for stocks reported based on Michael B. O'Higgins' book "Beating The Dow" (HarperCollins, 1991), now named Dogs of the Dow. O'Higgins' system works to find bargains in any collection of dividend-paying stocks. Utilizing analyst price upside estimates expanded the stock universe to include popular growth equities, as desired.
Dog Metrics Extracted Bargains
Thirty small, mid, and large-cap monthly dividend-paying stocks were pulled from 35 equities by showing strength in three to... Read more