Investing in High Dividend Dow Stocks

Investors are concerned about large budget deficits and Fed’s loose monetary policy. One of the most successful hedge fund managers, Ray Dalio, believes that the devaluation of the heavily indebted country currencies is inevitable, and investors should protect themselves for the near future. Like Ray Dalio, we also believe that investors should play more defensively and invest in high dividend yielding stocks in the upcoming inflationary environment. High dividend stocks generally perform well and usually increase dividend payments over the succeeding 5-10 years. We believe high dividend yielding stocks will perform better than T-bonds over the next 10 years. We compiled this list of 30 Dow stocks and ranked them based on their annualized dividend yields. The stocks with higher and lower dividends, and their performances are shown below: HIGHER DIVIDEND YIELDS Dividend Yield YTD Return 52-Week Return AT & T T 5.67% 7.67% 25.76% Verizon VZ 5.31% 6.74% 43.57%... Read more