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Are You Planning To Unleash The Dogs Of The Dow?
Published Thursday, February 2, 2017 at: 7:00 AM EST
The Dogs of the Dow is an investment strategy popularized by Michael O'Higgins in his 1991 book, Beating the Dow. The concept is simply to buy the 10 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrials Average (DJIA) that have the highest dividend yields in January. Then you stick with those stocks through the rest of the year.
It's really a "buy low" strategy, based on the notion that the stocks with the highest yields got that way because of falling prices—a stock's dividend yield is calculated by dividing the per share dividend by the price per share, and when the price drops, that increases the yield. The notion is that last year's investment "dogs" may be set to rise in the coming year.
There are a number of variations on the theme. For instance, Small Dogs of the Dow involves buying five DJIA stocks instead of 10.
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