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Report on High Dividend Stocks in Rising Rate Environments

Nov 5, 2018

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With the Fed expecting to continue to raise rates over the next few years, many investors are eager to understand how high dividend yielding stocks may react. We’ve prepared an analysis based on the performance and behavior of the highest decile¹ of dividend paying stocks from 1960 to 2017.

Key Findings Include:

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1. Deciles are ten tiers of stocks based the ranking of a common characteristic. For this analysis, all stocks in the considered universe are ranked by dividend yield and those in the 90th percentile or higher are included in the highest, or 10th decile. Stocks in the 80th to 90th percentile range are included the 9th decile, and so on. Stocks with the lowest dividend yields are in the 0th to 10th percentile range and are included in the lowest, or 1st decile.

Sources

Portfolio returns sourced from Fama and French Portfolios Formed on Dividend Yield, where all stocks listed on NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ have been considered. Stocks have been segregated into 10 portfolios (deciles) based on dividend yield (D/P).

Rising interest rate regimes sourced from the US Federal Reserve, defined as periods where the yield of 10 Year US Treasuries increased by more than 100 basis points over a period of 10 months or longer.

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Report on High Dividend Stocks in Rising Rate Environments

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