Dogs Of The Dow Jones: A Compilation Of The Cheapest Stocks From The Index

Dogs of the Dow Jones originally published on “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Investing is hard work, especially when you don’t have a system or strategy to follow. An investing strategy helps you to avoid big failures and keeps you on track. One popular investing scheme is the dogs of the Dow Jones Strategy.

The Dogs of the Dow Jones Strategy is a popular investment rule or strategy which is used by many investors. The success is controversial. Some studies say that you can create an outperformance by following this rule; others say you don’t have a benefit from it.

The philosophy behind is to buy ten stocks of the Dow Jones with the highest dividend yield and lowest price to earnings ratio at the beginning of the year and to hold these stocks for a year. After this period, the investor should sell stocks that are no more Dogs of the Dow and buy therefore new Dogs of the Dow. Below is an updated sheet of the ten best Dogs of the Dow. They have the lowest expected price to earnings ratio and highest dividend yield within the Dow Jones index.

I’ve attached a full list of the current dogs of the Dow Jones in this article.

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