Buy 10 “Small Dog” Stocks to CRUSH the Market
In the early ’90s, Michael B. O’Higgins popularized a strategy called the “Dogs of the Dow.”
That’s where investors purchase the 10 stocks in the Dow Jones Industrial Average with the highest yield.
The idea is that these stocks have higher yields because they’re “dogs,” or undesirable. Remember: When a stock goes down, its yield goes up.
(As a side note, I take offense to any term that describes man’s best friend in an unfavorable light.)
According to Barron’s, the Dogs of the Dow have an average yield of 3.7%. That’s twice as good as the S&P 500 Index.
A 3.7% dividend isn’t bad.
But there’s a new version of the Dogs strategy, and its average yield is almost 20%.
These Dogs Are Ready to Run
Barron’s recently looked at a new Dogs of the Dow strategy.
It’s a portfolio of the 10 highest-yielding stocks in the small-cap Russell 2000 Index with market values over $1 billion.
Barron’s calls them the “Small Dogs of the Dow.”
It found that over the past decade, the Small Dogs’ average dividend yield was almost 20%.
That dwarfs the 1.7% yield for the Russell 2000.
The Full List of the Small Dogs of the Dow
| Ticker | Name | Dividend Yield |
| HCC | Warrior Met Coal Inc. | 21.7% |
| DHC | Diversified Healthcare Trust | 13.8% |
| NYMT | New York Mortgage Trust Inc. | 12.6% |
| GEO | Geo Group Inc. | 11.3% |
| VGR | Vector Group | 11.2% |
| ARR | Armour Residential REIT Inc. | 11.2% |
| APAM | Artisan Partners Asset Mgmt. Inc. | 11.0% |
| SFL | SFL Corp. Ltd. | 10.5% |
| UNIT | Uniti Group Inc. | 10.4% |
| CXW | Corecivic Inc. | 10.4% |
To use this strategy, simply buy all 10 of these stocks … or at least as many as you’re able to.
As you can see in the chart above, all of the Small Dogs pay a dividend of more than 10%.
So, when the market shows weakness, you’ll still be making money from the yields.
And when the market surges higher, history proves that you can expect solid returns.
When you factor in dividends, the Small Dogs have been on par with, or even better than, the market.
Considering the great run stocks had over the past decade, that’s a really big deal.
An Even Better Way to Invest
For the past few months, I’ve been talking with my colleague Jeff Yastine about a brand-new investing strategy.
It easily beats both the Big and Small Dogs of the Dow.
In fact, I think Jeff’s onto something really big here. And from what I can tell, nobody outside of Wall Street is talking about it.
He calls it “Q Shares.” And it can help you make gains that are 5 times, 10 times and even 27 times bigger than with normal shares.
Jeff decided that everyday investors need to know about this new investment strategy too. So, he put together a webinar that explains exactly how it works.
You can watch it now by clicking on the image below:
Regards,
Editor, Automatic Fortunes
My career on Wall Street started while I was in college. I spent a summer interning for Merrill Lynch in the middle of the ‘90s bull market. I was fascinated with trading, and as a result, after college, I joined Salomon Brothers in the famed mortgage bond trading department. Later, I spent time at Citigroup working with credit derivatives. Eventually, I needed to walk away from the excess of Wall Street. That’s when I joined Banyan Hill in 2017. Now I help readers get ahead of the market and build their retirements.
