Dogs Of The Dow | Current Doggishness __top__

Assessing the current "doggishness" requires looking at the 2024-2025 rolling period. As of the most recent rotation, the list of Dogs has an unusually high concentration in three sectors:

Historically, when the Fed funds rate was near zero, a 4% dividend yield from Verizon looked like a gourmet meal. Today, you can buy a short-term Treasury bill yielding 5.2% with absolutely zero risk. dogs of the dow current doggishness

Let’s walk through the typical suspects and why their "doggishness" is more acute than usual. Assessing the current "doggishness" requires looking at the

For those who don't want to pick individual dogs, the ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (SDOG) offers a variation. It selects the top five yielders from each of the 11 GICS sectors. This prevents the current problem of over-concentration in Energy and Pharma. In a high-doggishness environment, diversification across sectors is your flea collar. Let’s walk through the typical suspects and why

To determine if the current environment is a "buying opportunity" or a "flea market," we have to measure the qualitative intensity of the doggishness. Let's call this the (scale 1-10, with 10 being maximum despair).

In the vast kennel of Wall Street investment strategies, few have as much folksy charm and historical backbone as the "Dogs of the Dow." First popularized in the 1990s by Michael O’Higgins in his book "Beating the Dow," the strategy is simplicity itself: at the start of each calendar year, purchase the 10 highest-yielding stocks among the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). Hold them for twelve months. Then, repeat.

Removals: * McDonald's Corporation (MCD): Dividend yield = 2.43% * International Business Machines (IBM): Dividend yield = 2.27% * HORAN Wealth