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Top 17 Yields For Profitable US Companies

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Paul Tracy, Editor, High-Yield International and  Co-Founder,  StreetAuthority provided a long report on high dividend yield companies. His point is that you can find many strong high yielding, solid companies that are outside of the US.

This interested me for two reasons:

  1. I want to learn all I can about high dividend yield stocks to find the best of the best for both income and growth to offset the paltry returns from other interest bearing instruments.
  2. I am always interested in diversifying and if I can have companies that have markets in other geographic regions, that is of great interest.

Paul starts with the top US companies -- he filters the companies to make sure they are profitable and so this isn't just a tactic for propping up the stock price. He came up with 17:

In a future article, we will go on to look at the international stocks but this is a set of stocks that are a mix of names and not the usual suspects. This is an interesting blind filter and worth comparing with our dividend ETF benchnark portfolio.

Holdings (As of 07/11/2016)
Monthly Holding Date: Total Transaction Times So Far:
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Performance (As of 07/11/2016)

Since 09/17/2009

Name YTD*
Return
1Yr
AR**
3Yr
AR**
5Yr
AR**
10Yr
AR**
15Yr
AR**
Top 17 Yields For Profitable US Companies 9.9% 12.1% 9.7% 3.9% N/A
VFINX (Vanguard (S&P 500) Index) 6.6% 24.7% 8.1% 13.4% 12.4% 14.5%
VBINX (Vanguard Balance (60% stocks/40% bonds) 1.8% 12.7% 2.1% 7.4% 7.6% 9.6%

*   YTD: Year to Date
**  AR: Annualized Return
Last 1 Week* 1 Yr 3 Yr 5 Yr 10 Yr Since
09/17/2009
2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009
Annualized Return(%) 0.4 12.1 9.7 3.9 NA 8.9 9.9 18.9 3.0 1.1 -1.7 -6.6 33.4 7.2
Sharpe Ratio NA 0.49 0.43 0.18 NA 0.45 0.49 0.57 0.31 0.06 -0.13 -0.29 2.26 0.4
Draw Down(%) NA 22.7 22.7 22.7 NA 22.7 17.0 15.8 7.8 19.7 16.7 19.3 9.9 7.7
Standard Deviation(%) NA 24.1 22.5 21.5 NA 19.8 20.0 33.0 9.8 16.6 13.1 23.1 14.8 18.1
Treynor Ratio NA 0.23 0.2 0.06 NA 0.14 0.13 0.54 0.08 0.01 -0.03 -0.08 0.53 0.08
Alpha NA 0.05 0.03 0.0 NA 0.01 0.05 0.09 0.0 -0.07 -0.03 -0.03 0.08 0.04
Beta NA 0.52 0.47 0.65 NA 0.65 0.76 0.35 0.37 0.76 0.55 0.8 0.63 0.85
RSquared NA 0.13 0.07 0.2 NA 0.25 0.37 0.02 0.18 0.26 0.28 0.65 0.6 0.57
Sortino Ratio NA 0.78 0.85 0.3 NA 0.73 0.7 1.48 0.41 0.08 -0.18 -0.39 3.23 0.61
Yield(%) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
Dividend Growth(%) N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

*: NOT annualized;YTD: Year to Date
**Inception: starting from 09/17/2009

Commission Fee ($ per transaction)      Long Term Tax Rate (%)
Short Term Tax Rate (%)      Monthly Withdraw ($)
Monthly Deposit ($)      Tax on Withdraw (%)
Initial Amount ($)      Estimation Method
The start date of the charts is 09/17/2009 when all charts have data
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