Top Technology Sector Dogs Are Ericsson For Yield And Comtech For Gains In February
The Dividend Dogs Rule
The "dog" moniker was earned by stocks exhibiting three traits: (1) paying reliable, repeating dividends, (2) their prices fell to where (3) yield (dividend/price) grew higher than their peers. Thus, the highest yielding stocks in any collection became known as "dogs." More specifically, these are, in fact, best called, "underdogs".
February Technology Dogs
Yield (dividend / price) results from here verified by Yahoo Finance were calculated as of 2/1/17 for XNano, Small, Mid, & Large cap Financial stocks. XNano firms capitalized under $200 M(illion); Small cap firms were valued at $200M to $2B(illion); Mid cap firms were worth $2B to $10B; Large caps were valued above $10B. Those yield results led to ten actionable conclusions discussed below.
Fifty Ready Technology Equities
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.
Last year the series was recently revised to report on 11 sectors as defined by Morningstar and tracked here: Basic Materials, Communication Services, Consumer Cyclical, Consumer Defensive, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrials, Real Estate, Technology, and 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... Read more