The current average dividend yield of the Dogs of the Dow screen is 3.9 %; this means shareholders of these stocks would actually have an annual return that is higher by approximately this amount.
With a little research you can find
the current average dividend yield for stocks and from there, you can find stocks whose current yield is significantly higher (or lower).
To give you an idea of possible yields,
the current average dividend yield for stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average is 3.03 %.
Not exact matches
If I assume a
dividend growth rate of 6 percent (about the long - run
average *), the
current S&P 500
dividend yield of 2.1 percent (from multpl.com), a terminal S&P 500
dividend yield of 4 percent (Hussman says that the
dividend yield on stocks has historically
averaged about 4 percent), the expected nominal return over ten years is 2.4 percent annually.
Current dividend yield of 6.97 %, the
average company in the S&P 500 has a
yield of around 2 %.
Too, this group offers an
average yield of roughly 3.5 %, well above the
current 2.0 % median for all
dividend - paying stocks in the Value Line universe.
Still, CAT is a
dividend machine that is currently
yielding a high 5.04 % and a
current PE of 12.7 which is well below its five year
average.
According to Brian, not only is the stock's forward P / E ratio of 15.0 much lower than its historical norm of 19.1, but its
current dividend yield of 2 % is nearly double the company's 22 - year
average yield of 1.2 %.
Note on the «
Dividend Yield %» line that PG's current 3.0 % yield is the same as its 5 - year average yield shown in the last co
Yield %» line that PG's
current 3.0 %
yield is the same as its 5 - year average yield shown in the last co
yield is the same as its 5 - year
average yield shown in the last co
yield shown in the last column.
The
current dividend yield is 4.11 %, which is great compared to the S&P 500
average of 1.7 %.
Current YOC: My personal
dividend yield on cost when factoring in my
average purchase prices with the annual
dividend as it currently stands..
These have an
average dividend yield of 4 %, approximately three percentage points above the
current yield on 10 - year TIPS, and over one percentage point ahead of the
yield on standard 10 - year Treasury bonds.
Using this data it is possible to infer the
dividend yield for each period that is used, along with the
average payout ratio, from the
current MSCI data to calculate the earnings per share and CAPE prior to 2005.
But best of all, Cardinal Health meets my
current investment objective because it provides an above -
average current dividend yield coupled with above -
average dividend growth.
Assuming this new ETF will use a strategy similar to that of the Vanguard High
Dividend Yield (VYM), which also tracks a FTSE index, it will focus on stocks with above - average current yields rather than dividend
Dividend Yield (VYM), which also tracks a FTSE index, it will focus on stocks with above -
average current yields rather than
dividenddividend growth.
Bringing this up - to - date, Siegel calculates that there's been a change in the
dividend yield of 185 basis points (taking the 1946 - 2004 period
average of 3.45 percent and subtracting the
current dividend yield of 1.6 percent).
Or, if
current spendable income is your objective, look for companies with above -
average yields and histories of increasing their
dividend each year.
You can see this in P / E10 data and
dividend yield data (preferably using the
average of 5 to 10 years of
dividends along with the
current price).
If I assume a
dividend growth rate of 6 percent (about the long - run
average *), the
current S&P 500
dividend yield of 2.1 percent (from multpl.com), a terminal S&P 500
dividend yield of 4 percent (Hussman says that the
dividend yield on stocks has historically
averaged about 4 percent), the expected nominal return over ten years is 2.4 percent annually.
Current S&P 500
dividend yield is about 1.9 %, which is less than the typical 3 % historical
average over the last century.
A higher
current yield compared to the stock's historical
average suggests better valuation, because
dividend yield is higher when price is lower, all else equal.
Above -
average current yield and expectations for above -
average earnings growth out to fiscal year - end 2018 makes slow - growing high -
yielding SCANA an intriguing
dividend growth stock opportunity.
We looked for stocks that were trading at
current yields within 10 % of their seven - year
average high
dividend yield.
There are 2,370 stocks with enough data to calculate a seven - year
average high
dividend yield, but only 867 have a
current yield within 10 % of their seven - year
average high.
Morningstar calculates WMT's
average dividend yield over the past 5 years as 2.5 %, so at 3 %
current yield, I would estimate that WMT is 20 % undervalued by this valuation method.
And as noted last month, even if
dividend payouts were boosted to the historical
average 52 % of earnings, the
current dividend yield would be only 1.8 %.
Current average yield 5.9 % on
dividends with some nice 5 - 10 % capital appreciation on top.
Its
current price / sale, price / book, price / cashflow tend to be higher than its 5 years
averages and the
dividend yield stands lower than its 2,8 % five years
average which would support that this stock is overvalued.
The
current 5.0 %
dividend yield is somewhat higher than the stock's five - year
average yield of 4.8 %, too.
At times when the
yield spread was less than 80 basis points — when REIT
dividend yields were extraordinarily high, reflecting REIT stock prices that were especially low relative to
current distributions — REIT performance over the next year tended to be especially strong, with total returns that
averaged 20.81 percent and outpaced the broad stock market by 5.67 percentage points.
At times when the
yield spread was greater than 180 basis points — that is, when REIT
dividend yields were extraordinarily low, reflecting REIT stock prices that were especially high relative to their
current distributions — REIT performance over the next year tended to be weak, with total returns that
averaged 6.98 percent and underperformed the broad stock market by 1.84 percentage points.