Titanium Leads Basic Materials Dogs By Yield In May But Upside And Gains Go To Diamonds

Basic Materials SML Dogs In May
Yield (dividend/price) results from here verified by Yahoo Finance were calculated as of May 13, 2016, for Small, Mid, & Large cap Basic Materials sector stocks. Small-cap firms were valued at $200M(illion) to $2B(illion); Mid-cap firms were worth $2B to $10B; Large-caps were valued above $10B. Those yield results led to the actionable conclusions discussed below.
Fifty For the Money
Since late 2011 this report series has applied dog dividend methodology to uncover possible buy opportunities in each of eight major market sectors listed by Yahoo Finance: basic materials (BasMats), consumer goods (ConGo), financials (Fins), healthcare (Heal), industrial goods (IndiGo), services (Svcs), technology (Tec) and utilities (Utes). In the past two years the series expanded to report (1) dividend yield; (2) price upside; (3) net gain results based on analyst 1 yr. target projections.
Now the series is being revised to report on eleven sectors as defined by Morningstar and tracked here: Basic Materials; Communication Services; Consumer Cyclical; Consumer Defensive; Energy; Financial Services; Healthcare; Industrials; Real Estate; Technology; Utilities.
This article intended to reveal bargain stocks to buy and hold up to one year. See Dow 30 article for 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... Read more