18 'Safer' S&P 600 Small-Cap Dividend Dogs Score 10 Up; 4 Meh; 4 Down In March

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."

9 of 11 Business Sectors Were Represented By 18 "Safer" S&P600 Mid Cap Dividend Firms
S&P Dow Jones Indices, the publisher, describes their small-cap index, thus:
"The S&P SmallCap 600® measures the small-cap segment of the U.S. equity market. The index is designed to track companies that meet specific inclusion criteria to ensure that they are liquid and financially viable."
The range of market caps for this index is
$5,778M down to $64.01M
Its full name is: Dow Jones U.S. Small-Cap Total Market Equity Index.
Business sector representation for the 18 "Safer" S&P600 dividend dogs broke out as follows: Real Estate (4); Communication Services (1); Financial Services (4); Technology (1); Consumer Cyclical (3); Consumer Defensive (1); Industrials (1); Basic Materials (2); Energy (1); Healthcare (0); Utilities (0).
The first seven sectors listed above populated the top ten small-cap S&P 600 'safe' index by yield.
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