We’ve all seen the headlines. These days value is starting to trump growth. As the economy has slowed and stocks continue to hit new highs, investors are looking for more from their portfolios. They crave a higher margin of safety and some decent dividends. Tech and momentum stocks just aren’t cutting it. As a result, growth stocks are being shunned and value stocks are in demand. But finding real “value” can be a difficult proposition.
That is, unless you let your portfolio go to the dogs.
One of the oldest and simplest strategies can be used to find some of the biggest and best blue-chip values on the planet. More importantly, the so-called “Dogs of the Dow” have continued to produce market-beating returns and a high rate of dividend income, year in and year out. And given the huge shift toward value stocks, this upcoming year could produce some of the best returns for the strategy in a long time.
In the end, investors looking for the best value stocks need to meet these dogs.
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