Top S&P 500 Dividend Dogs Led By Century For Yield & Mattel For Upside In April

The Dividend Dogs Rule
Stocks earned the "dog" moniker by 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 precisely, these are, in fact, best called, "underdogs".
50 Top S&P 500 Dividend Dogs By Yield

Actionable Conclusion (1) 10 Top S&P 500 Dividend Stocks By Yield
Top ten S&P 500 stocks selected 4/21/17 by yield represented five of eleven Morningstar sectors. Top yielding stock, CenturyLink (CTL) [1] was the one of two communication services representatives in the top ten. The other placed tenth, AT&T, Inc. (T) [10].
Five consumer cyclical sector firms placed second, fourth, sixth, seventh, and eighth by yield, Mattel (MAT) [2], Ford (F) [4], Macy's (M) [6], Kohl's (KSS) [7], and Staples. (SPLS) [8].
One industrials sector firm placed third, Iron Mountain (IRM) [3]. A technology representative placed fifth, Seagate Technology (STX) [5]. Finally, a lone energy sector representative placed ninth, Occidental Petroleum (OXY) [9], to complete the S&P 500 top ten for April.
S&P 500 Dividend Vs. Price Results Compared To Dow Dogs
Graphs below compared relative strengths of the top ten S&P 500 Dividend dogs by yield as of market close 4/21/2017 with those of the Dow industrials index. Annual... Read more