AT&T Voted 'Follower Favorite' Dividend Dog For January

How Followers Voted
Around noon on Wednesday, December 9, I sent a group message to 5,600 registered "followers" of Fredrik Arnold through the Seeking Alpha messaging system. I repeated a September 21 invitation to "participate in an informal follower survey and tell me [their] favorite dividend stock."
In exchange, I offered to e-mail a pdf of my top-performing of the (then) seventeen "dog of the week" (DOTW) articles to any respondent furnishing their e-address. My DOTW selections are published every Sunday exclusively on my Seeking Alpha premium page. The DOTW list is now up to twenty-three.
As responses came in, some listed more than one ticker symbol. Only the first was accepted. Also, many duplicate favorites were tagged. Verizon (NYSE: VZ), AT&T (NYSE: T), Southern Company (NYSE: SO), Starbucks (Nasdaq: SBUX), Prospect Capital Corporation (Nasdaq: PSEC), Philip Morris (NYSE: PM), Orchid Island Capital (NYSE: ORC), Realty Income (NYSE: O), Northern Tier Energy (NTI), the ETRACS Monthly Pay 2xLeveraged Mortgage REIT ETN (NYSEARCA: MORL), Altria (NYSE: MO), Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ), Dow Chemical (NYSE: DOW), Cornerstone Strategic Value Fund (NYSEMKT:CLM), and the ETRACS 2xLeveraged Long Wells Fargo Business Development Company ETN (NYSEARCA: BDCL) had multiple nominations. A list of forty-eight emerged and was published on December 21.
After mid-December, responses continued to show... Read more