Top 10 Dividend 'CCC' Combinations Vs. December Dogs of the Dow
By Fredrik Arnold:Last week David Fish published his Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers Smackdowns XXI on Seeking Alpha. He defines the CCC group as follows: "Champions are companies that have paid higher dividends for at least 25 straight years; Contenders have streaks of 10-24 years; Challengers have streaks of 5-9 years." This article combines the top 10 yielding stocks from each group then utilizes the dogs of the index strategy to sort the combined index of those 30 into a suitable grouping of 10 to trade.This is part of an ongoing effort to answer the question, "which dividend stocks are good, better, best, bad or ugly?" It also aims to provide strong evidence of the need to heed Yale professor Robert Schiller's observation:
People still place too much confidence in the markets and have too strong a belief that paying attention to the gyrations in their investments will someday make themComplete Story »
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