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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100 Most Bought Stocks By Investment Gurus

100 most bought stocks by investment professionals originally published on Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. I love it to see how the big investors act on the market. Some of them have a really interesting and creative investing strategy which works only with huge amounts of capital.

Some hedge funds play with money and try to boost its return by ignoring a good diversification. But if they know the business and management team the risk might be lower as for desk research investors like us.

However, each month I publish a little list about the largest stock buys from 49 super investors. I analyze how often a stock was bought over the recent six months and ranked them in my 100 best guru buy list. All super gurus combined bought 655 stocks within the recent half year.

In my view, it’s a good tool to look at the activities of guru investors in the market because they have big money in their pockets and if they invest combined, they could change the market very easily.

Their attitude to stocks is also lightning the way to return, not always but sometimes because the media notices the portfolio changes of the hedge fund managers and create additional publicity.

Technology is still the place to be for the investment guru’s. I think that they have noticed the huge cash reserves of Apple and the other stocks. Not enough, most of them are very profitable and grow further despite they don’t have new technologies developed.

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10 Top Dogs of the Dow Jones Index - September 2013 List

Dogs of the Dow Jones originally published on “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. 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.

Today you can find a full List of the cheapest stocks from the Dow Jones, also named as Dogs of the Dow Jones in the attached list.

Summarized, the 10 cheapest stocks of the Dow Jones have an average dividend yield of 3.53 percent as well as a forward P/E ratio of 12.20. The average P/B ratio amounts to 2.67 and P/S ratio is 2.48.

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Ex-Dividend Stocks: Best Dividend Paying Shares On September 12, 2013

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

In total, 192 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 95 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.02%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Ares Capital Corporation	ARCC	4.72B	8.33	1.09	5.87	8.57%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	70.03B	15.97	19.65	2.88	5.49%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.62B	14.49	3.10	1.74	5.12%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	8.34B	15.80	2.48	3.12	4.22%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.54B	-	1.78	7.45	4.07%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.61B	16.47	1.54	1.25	3.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	4.82B	33.60	3.15	10.27	3.69%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.91B	16.58	1.37	1.80	3.59%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	144.42B	28.56	3.04	3.22	3.58%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.12B	21.25	4.56	4.33	3.47%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.09B	15.25	3.95	1.51	3.41%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	18.12B	-	1.32	9.46	3.00%
UGI Corp.	UGI	4.44B	16.32	1.78	0.63	2.91%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	171.75B	20.44	5.33	3.61	2.90%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.41B	46.12	-	5.80	2.89%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.26B	23.73	1.68	2.72	2.84%
Owens & Minor Inc.	OMI	2.18B	21.10	2.21	0.24	2.76%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.31B	11.75	11.11	1.86	2.69%
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.	FNF	5.60B	9.21	1.28	0.65	2.57%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	2.17B	16.19	0.80	0.95	2.52%

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Next Week's 20 Top Yielding Ex-Dividend Shares

The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

In total, 201 stocks go ex dividend - of which 79 yield more than 3 percent. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the next current week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Altria Group Inc.	MO	68.87B	15.71	19.33	2.83	5.58%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.12B	14.47	3.04	1.74	5.18%
Encana Corporation	ECA	12.88B	-	2.43	2.27	4.57%
Williams Companies, Inc.	WMB	23.98B	37.76	5.11	3.33	4.19%
Shaw Communications, Inc.	SJR	10.45B	14.64	2.79	2.16	4.17%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.41B	16.19	1.51	1.23	4.00%
Rogers Communications Inc.	RCI	21.29B	12.30	5.17	1.77	3.99%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	142.94B	28.27	3.01	3.18	3.62%
Public Storage	PSA	26.26B	34.23	5.08	13.91	3.27%
Cenovus Energy Inc.	CVE	22.45B	45.69	2.34	1.40	3.10%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	170.50B	20.29	5.29	3.58	2.92%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.17B	23.52	1.66	2.70	2.87%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.04B	11.43	10.81	1.81	2.77%
Kohl's Corp.	KSS	11.53B	12.27	1.90	0.60	2.67%
Hewlett-Packard Company	HPQ	43.25B	-	1.76	0.38	2.59%
Automatic Data Processing, Inc.	ADP	35.29B	26.12	5.70	3.12	2.38%
Macy's, Inc.	M	17.24B	13.07	2.94	0.62	2.22%
Motorola Solutions, Inc.	MSI	15.22B	16.09	5.45	1.75	2.20%
T. Rowe Price Group, Inc.	TROW	18.26B	19.38	4.24	5.66	2.15%
Fidelity National Information Services	FIS	13.08B	25.20	1.98	2.21	1.95%

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