Investing in High Dividend Consumer Stocks

In a previous study, we showed that the average return of high dividend yielding stocks was 13.04% between 1927 and 2009. Dividend stocks beat the overall market by an average of 1.36% per year during that period. In another article, we compiled a list of the top 30 US Financial Stocks and showed that high dividend yielding financial stocks performed better than low dividend yielding ones during the last 52-week period. We prefer high dividend stocks since they generally perform better and usually increase dividend payments over the succeeding 5-10 years. In addition, we are concerned about the Fed’s inflationary monetary policy and want to protect ourselves against inflation. One of the best ways to play defense in an inflationary environment is by investing in high dividend yielding stocks. We compiled a list of the top 30 US Consumer Goods Stocks (the sector classifications are sourced from Finviz) by market... Read more