Week Two: The Dogs Of The Dow

Components of my Dogs of the Dow list remain the same as last week. VZ and MO went up in price but retained their position as yield leaders for the Dogs. PFE went down quite a bit, increasing the yield enough to move them into third place. The 10-year Treasury Bond ended the week with a yield of 4.55%.

I think VZ is an attractive alternative to 10-year Treasuries. VZ’s yield is a little better. It seems to me that bonds have nowhere to go but down, but VZ could go up quite a bit. As always, MO is likely to reward patient investors. PFE is mildly interesting at the current price, and so is GE. The rest of the list seems uninspiring, but we still have three weeks to go until December 29 and a lot could happen in that time.

Comments

[Asif Suria:]

The recent weakness in GM and PFE has certainly hurt the returns of the dogs over the last month.

Alligator, unless you have automated the process of determining the performance of the dogs of the dow, you can find the current performance of each component and how the dogs have done when compared to the major indices at,

www.sinletter.com/dogs...

2006 Dec 11 08:04 PM