Summary: Low Yield crushes High Yield in the last year.
In the January 2020 Issue, Morningstar.com published their DividendInvestor which contains their Income Bellwether Watchlist. Below is the performance* of the stocks based on the top highest and lowest dividend yield from December 10, 2019 to December 11, 2020 (intraday).
As the data continues to demonstrate, low yield generally outperforms high yield. This has been resoundingly shown in our Dogs of the Dow in the period from 1996 to 2019.
*United Technologies was excluded from the results.
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