Comments on: A Look at the Ten Highest-Yielding Dow Stocks

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[...] Have you ever wondered what it means for a stock to pay a dividend? At All Financial Matters, JLP recently examined the ten highest-yielding Dow stocks. While this information is fun in a stats-geek sort of way, he also provided a quick crash course in dividend yields and what they can tell an investor. [...]

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Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:21:04 +0000

[...] A Look at the Ten Highest-Yielding Dow Stocks from AllFinancialMatters. JLP reveals CitiGroup as the highest yielding Dow stock last year. Some of the top ten stocks appear in my mutual funds, but I don’t own any of those stocks outright. The two stocks that I own, MSFT and AKAM, did not do well last year. [...]

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A Stroll Through My Blogroll — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 03:32:00 +0000

[...] All Financial Matters writes about the 10 highest-yielding stocks of the Dow. [...]

By: JLP

JLP — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:40:34 +0000

Fran Kent,

BAC isn’t a component in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

By: fran kent

fran kent — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:19:55 +0000

List of DJ Dividends neglected to include BAC. Or did I miss something?

By: Learning A Little Bit More About Dividends And Bonds

Learning A Little Bit More About Dividends And Bonds — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 22:01:32 +0000

[...] Recently, I’ve been thinking about dividends – what they are, how they work, how they are calculated, etc. Well, I fired up my newsreader today, and my good friend JLP from All Financial Matters has an excellent article about dividends and the Dow 30. [...]

By: JLP

JLP — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:36:00 +0000

NCN,

According to the Dow Diamond website, the current yield is 2.24%. This is because the ETF does not hold an equal weighting of each of the 30 stocks.

By: JimmyDaGeek

JimmyDaGeek — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:25:14 +0000

The “Dogs of the Dow” strategy is meant to be a mechanical investing strategy where you simply apply a screen and invest according to the results. Trying to second-guess the strategy causes deviations to the results. For example, Altria (Phillip Morris) has been in the Dogs list for years. When I was using the strategy, I avoided it because of potential lawsuit losses. Yet, here it still is, putting out great results.

Motley Fool did an analysis years ago and found that while it could produce a small gain relative to a buy and hold of the Dow index, the trading costs and potential tax liabilities made it not worth the effort.

You can find out more here: http://dogsofthedow.com/

By: NCN

NCN — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 12:12:50 +0000

So, if I purchases an ETF comprised of the Dow stocks, like DIA, would it then produce the average yield of these 30 stocks?
Also, I’ve noticed that when talking about stuff like this, many commentators mention that the yield helps a stock from going “too low”. In other words, as the yield goes up, more folks invest, thus creating a floor for the stock price. Make sense?
Great post… I’m linking…
NCN