Dogs of the Dow - High dividend yield Dow stocks

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Looking for a simple way to select high dividend yield Dow stocks for your investment portfolio? Try Dogs of the Dow. Read on and you will discover a technique that would have given you a 17.7% average annual return since 1973! That's not bad, especially considering that the Dow Jones Industrial Average overall return was 11.9% during that same period (As reported in U.S. News & World Report, July 8, 1996). How have the high dividend stocks of the Dogs of the Dow performed lately…

- During the tech bubble of the late 90s, the high dividend stocks of the Dogs of the Dow were up 28.6% in 1996, up 22.2% in 1997, up 10.7% in 1998, and up 4.0% in 1999.
- During the difficult bear market years of 2000 - 2002, the Dogs of the Dow were up 6.4% in 2000, down 4.9% in 2001, and down 8.9% in 2002, and that was enough to significantly outperform the Dow, S&P 500, and Nasdaq.
- In 2003, the high dividend stocks of the Dogs of the Dow gained 28.7% and made new, all-time highs despite the massive bear market of 2000-2002!
- In 2004, the high dividend yield Dogs of the Dow remained in record territory with a 4.4% gain and then gave back 5.1% in 2005.
- In 2006, the Dogs of the Dow surged to new record highs with a gain of 30.3%. The Small Dogs of the Dow did even better with a gain of 42%!

Dogs of the Dow is a stock picking strategy devoted to selecting high dividend stocks. At this site, we intend to inform you of this technique, study its past performance, gauge its current performance, and present you with methods to get more out of the Dogs. This site is loaded with helpful investment information & updated frequently, so insert a bookmark and follow the Dogs of the Dow.

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Interested in the details of how the system works? Then try our Dog Steps page. If you have further questions, be sure to check our FAQ, FAQ 2, and Site Tips. And to get you started, we have an exclusive list of the best online brokers at Top Dog Brokers. You can also read up on stock broker reviews (i.e. Ameritrade, Brownco, Scottrade, TD Waterhouse, etc.) made by fellow investors via our Top Dog Brokers Feedback page. And if you would like to brush up on a Dogs of the Dow related term (i.e. dividend, dividend yield, value stocks, undervalued, contrarian investing, blue chip stocks, etc.) or just a general investment related term (i.e. PE ratio, earnings yield, ex-dividend date, January effect, brokerage account, etc.) try our Dogs of the Dow Glossary.

If you would like to see how the Dogs are doing, you can check out a list of the 2009 Dogs of the Dow

, and track them with our weekly performance tables (Weekly and YTD Performance Tables) as well as our daily performance tables (Daily Performance, YTD Performance, Current Doggishness). Want to see which high dividend yield Dow stocks would make the cut as a Dog as of the most recent Friday close, try Current Doggishness and for the prior week's high yield stocks try Previous Doggishness.

You can take a look back with the Dog Years page. Or try the 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, and/or 1996 Dogs of the Dow.

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