Diversified Portfolio of Dividend-Paying Stocks
Here is a table of 24 diversified dividend-paying stocks suitable for a long-term conservative investor.
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Stock | Quote | Dividend & Dividend Yield | Interactive Price Chart | ||||
| Abbott Laboratories | 0.56 (1.50%) |
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| Arrow Financial Corporation | 1.00 (4.00%) |
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| Atmos Energy | 1.40 (3.10%) |
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| AT&T | 1.80 (4.80%) |
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| Chevron | 4.00 (3.20%) |
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| Citizens Holding Company | 0.88 (4.70%) |
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| Clorox | 2.56 (2.90%) |
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| Colgate-Palmolive | 1.36 (2.20%) |
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| ConocoPhillips | 2.64 (4.20%) |
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| Consolidated Edison | 2.46 (4.00%) |
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| Johnson & Johnson | 2.64 (3.00%) |
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| Kimberly-Clark | 3.24 (3.10%) |
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| Lilly | 1.96 (3.50%) |
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| Mercury General Corporation | 2.45 (5.30%) |
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| Northeast Utilities | 1.47 (3.30%) |
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| Northwest Natural Gas Company | 1.82 (4.10%) |
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| Realty Income Corporation | 2.17 (3.90%) |
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| Penns Woods Bancorp | 1.88 (4.60%) |
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| Piedmont Natural Gas | 1.24 (3.60%) |
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| Universal Health Realty Income Trust | 2.48 (4.60%) |
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| Vectren | 1.42 (3.90%) |
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| Verizon | 2.06 (3.90%) |
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| WGL Holdings | 1.68 (3.70%) |
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| W. P. Carey & Co. LLC | 3.28 (4.20%) |
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To follow the day-to-day progress of the Dividend-Paying Stocks portfolio, check out the returns table and chart below. Dollar values are computed using weekly closes for stocks from Yahoo! Finance. All 24 stocks are included in the chart computations. The current value of the portfolio assumes that $416.67 was invested (total of $10,000) in each stock at its closing weekly price for the first week of January 2003.
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Dividend-Paying Stocks - Return Results | |
| Portfolio: | Dividend-Paying Stocks |
| Start date: | Jan-02-2003 |
| Start value: | $10,000 |
| End date: | May-25-2013 |
| End value: | $29,592 |
| Number prices | 543 |
| Minimum value occurred on Feb-10-2003 | $9,412 |
| Maximum value occurred on May-13-2013 | $30,536 |
| Total gain or loss (Start date to End date) | 195.92% |
| Annualized gain or loss (Start date to End date) | 10.95% |
| Sharpe Ratio | 0.80 |
| Total dollar value on End date of a $10,000 purchase made on Start date | $29,592 |
| Average percent return for all possible buy/sell combinations | 36.46% |
| Number returns | 147,153 |
| Number profitable returns (Winners) | 135,109 |
| Percent profitable returns | 91.82% |
| Number unprofitable returns (Losers) | 12,044 |
| Percent unprofitable returns | 8.18% |
| Winners to losers ratio | 11.22 |
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