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Less-dangerous dividends
We all know that financial stocks tend to pay high dividends. And we all know what happened to financial stocks.
Dividend-minded investors have had it rough this year. Many of the industry groups with the highest yields at the end of 2007 have performed poorly this year. Conversely, most of the best-performing groups are not known for paying dividends.
Portfolios focused on high-yielding stocks tend to be concentrated in a few parts of the market, many with subpar growth potential. Sectors with the highest profit-growth expectations tend to be ... Continue
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FORECASTS LISTS OUTPERFORM
Year Focus
List
(%) Buy
List
(%) LT
Buy
List
(%) S&P
500
Index
(%) 2008† (17.9) (18.4) (10.5) (15.8) 2007 22.8 18.1 10.4 3.5 2006 12.9 14.8 9.3 13.6 2005 8.1 10.3 3.5 3.0 2004 17.5 18.8 8.7 9.0 2003 20.2 25.0 24.0 26.4 2002 (28.9) (25.8) (18.2) (23.4) 2001 (16.0) (15.6) 0.3 (13.0) 2000 14.0 (1.4) 5.0 (10.1)† Through September 4.
Notes: Returns are fully invested and exclude dividends and transaction costs. Buy List and Long-Term Buy List returns reflect target weightings for individual stocks.
Developed by Richard Moroney, editor of Dow Theory Forecasts and Upside, Quadrix is a proprietary stock-rating system. Quadrix grades about 5,000 U.S.-traded stocks based on percentile ranks, with 100 the maximum and 0 the minimum.

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