VZ - April Dogs Of The Dow: Buy 1 Watch 4

2024-04-03 11:28:49 ET

Summary

• "The Dow® [adds a stock] if the company has an excellent reputation, demonstrates sustained growth, and is of interest to a large number of investors. Sector representation.is also a consideration.”–Dow Jones & Co.
• The highest-yield 10 stocks are April’s Dogs of the Dow: GS, JNJ, KO, AMGN, CSCO, IBM, CVX, DOW, MMM, and VZ. They only averaged a 3.97% annual yield, as prices.
• Thirty Dow stocks represent nine of eleven sectors. Dow Jones tracks utilities as a separate index and omits real estate. Broker top-ten target-estimated April net gains ranged from 11.38%-26.62%, topped by BA 3/28/24.
• Dow Industrial Index top-ten firms by broker target-price upside, JNJ; CRM; MSFT, CVX, AMZN, MCD, AAPL, UNH, NKE, and BA, averaged 15.96%.
• Analyst one-year targets showed ten highest-yield Dow stocks producing 9.75% more gain from $5k invested in the lowest-priced five than from the same investment in all ten. Lower-priced (“little” Dow dogs) lead the pack by nearly one length into April.

Foreword

While two-thirds of this collection of Dow Industrials is too pricey and reveals only skinny dividends, one of the five lowest-priced Dogs of the Dow is ready to buy. This month, only Verizon Communications Inc. ( VZ ), lives up to the dogcatcher ideal of annual dividends from $1K invested exceeding their single share prices.

In late February, Dow Jones replaced the low-priced, high-yield dividend payer WBA, with AMZN, a high-priced non-dividend payer....

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