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High Dividend Yields Deliver Best Total Returns

by Sean Brodrick on March 27, 2010

Here’s something very interesting, at least if you like big, fat dividend yields.

Plexus Asset Management issued a multi-year comparison of the dividend yields of stocks in the S&P 500 Index  and the forward real returns (total returns, or capital movements plus dividends). The study covered the period from 1871 to March 2010 and used the S&P 500 (and its predecessors prior to 1957). The outlook is quite good for high-yield stocks (like the ones recommended in my new monthly publication, Crisis Profit Hunter 

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Plexus Asset Management also made the calculations using P/E instead of dividends.  By that measure, the market is expensive by historical standards.

You can read more abut this at The Big Picture.

And remember, we’re running a discount on Crisis Profit Hunter right now.  That won’t last, so get it while you can.

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