In addition, this stylistic diversification affords the ability to construct a portfolio with a total return profile
driven by dividend yield, supported by dividend growth, and exposed to capital appreciation potential.
In addition, this stylistic diversification affords the ability to construct a portfolio with a total return profile driven by dividend growth,
supported by dividend yield, and exposed to capital appreciation potential.
Value - rotation strategies (for example, ranking
countries by dividend yield) have historically offered up higher returns than the broad benchmarks.
For example, I recently sorted my stock
screen by dividend yield and I got Provident Financial and Capita at the top, with dividend yields of 20 % and 17 % respectively.
In one study, Professor French sorted Canadian stocks
by dividend yield at the end of December and put them into three portfolios.
Scaling by the 1.725 factor (which is the dividend yield of DVY divided
by the dividend yield of the S&P 500): dividend investors should be able to get yields of 4.7 % to 6.0 % from good companies in 3 to 7 years.
The outperformance was most impressive most recently when it lived up to its goal to find the most undervalued stocks on Wall
Street by dividend yields.
Of the 9.6 percent nominal total return earned by stocks over the past century, fully 9.5 percent has been contributed by investment return - 4.5
percent by dividend yields and 5 percent from earnings growth.
Accordingly, I started with reviewing the index in alphabetical order, then I ran the group by estimated total return to provide a perspective of valuation, and then
by dividend yield order.
The following chart shows the returns to each of the deciles
sorted by dividend yield (Updated to include non-dividend payers).
The ETF is
weighted by dividend yield, so the stock with the highest weighting, at 4.5 %, is Teekay Offshore Partners (NYSE: $ TOO).
You will be able to search thousands of stocks on the NYSE, NASDAQ, AMEX and OTCBB that are trading near their 52 Week High / Low
screened by dividend yield, market cap etc to help locate your own dividend investments
The forward price / earnings ratio of the top 25 % of S&P 500 stocks
by dividend yield is 17, vs. a 36 - year average of 12, according to Ned Davis Research.
These stocks then are weighted
by dividend yield.
Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend Index represents the United States» leading stocks
by dividend yield; this index is shown here because it is tracked by the largest high dividend yield ETF by assets.
Since the S&P 500 is preloaded with my premium subscription, I am able to easily review the entire index as a whole, and I have several options on ways to organize the list, for example,
by dividend yield, alphabetically, by total return, etc..