3 Dogs of the Dow to Scoop Up During a Dip

The “Dogs of the Dow” is an investment approach whereby investors allocate money to the 10 highest dividend-yielding blue-chip stocks listed in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, also known as the Dow 30. By rebalancing a portfolio and weighting it heavily towards the Dow stocks that offer the highest dividend yields, investors can beat the overall performance of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, or so the theory goes. The strategy first became popular in 1991 when author Michael B. O’Higgins published his b ...