Search Results for: Dogs of the Dow

Work Smart, Not Hard

This is a lesson on compound interest.  Look at the table below to see what happens when a person puts away $2,000 a year for 7 years ($14,000 in total) and nothing more after that compared to a person who … Continue reading

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Performance Review: December 31, 2010

Below is the 7-year performance of our Dividend Watch List from December 31, 2010 to November 29, 2017 as compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

Review: DJIA Analyst Review

In our posting of October 22, 2016, we highlighted the Analyst Estimates for the Dow Jones Industrial Average.  We took the analyst low estimated earnings and with a price to earnings ratio of 15 projected one year out. Below are … Continue reading

1929-1932 Decline Largely Impacted by Index Changes

As originally published on April 22, 2009 at SeekingAlpha & DividendInc After considerable pondering on the subject, I have come to the conclusion that the 89% decline in the Dow Industrials from 1929 to 1932 had little to do with … Continue reading

TSX 60 Year-To-Date: April 5, 2021

Below is a chart of the performance of the Dogs of the TSX 60 from December 31, 2020 to April 5, 2021 (intraday). The Toronto Stock Exchange has increased approximately +11.65% year to date. As a group, the Low yield … Continue reading

U.S. Dividend Watch List: Top 5 by Ratios

Below is the performance of the top 5 stocks by fundamental ratios that we posted from our watch list dated January 4, 2019 to December 27, 2019: When looking at the data, we prefer to compare the performance of companies … Continue reading

“Scary” 1929 Chart Says Little About the Future

On February 11, 2014, Mark Hulbert of MarketWatch.com posted an article titled “Scary 1929 Market Chart Gains Traction (found here)”.  In the article, Hulbert suggests that the critics of the chart, which shows a parallel between the current market action … Continue reading

Netflix Added to the Nasdaq 100…Again

We have always maintained that those who administer the composition of stock indexes such as the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Nasdaq Composite do so in the fashion of rank speculators. As further proof, it was announced that Netflix … Continue reading

Nasdaq 100: 2012 Re-Rank Review

On December 14, 2012, the Nasdaq OMX Group announced the names of the companies that would be added and dropped from the Nasdaq 100 Index (found here). This year there were ten companies added and dropped. The ten companies added … Continue reading

Article Flashback: April 20, 2009

Below is my response to a critic of my April 20, 2009 article about how past management of the Dow Jones Industrial constituents had contributed significantly to the declines in the market from 1929 to 1932. I feel that this … Continue reading