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The QDF ETF and the Return of Dividend Growth April 15, 2021
Dividend growth is back in a big way. Investors have good cause to revisit quality payout growth with the
QDF’s underlying benchmark targets management efficiency or quantitative evaluation of a firm’s deployment of capital and its financing decisions. By using a management efficiency screen, the index can screen out firms that aggressively pursue capital expenditures and additional financing, which typically lose flexibility in both advantageous and challenging partitions of the market cycle.
“On a per share basis, S&P 500 Q1 2021 dividend payments for the S&P 500 increased 0.2% to $14.68 from Q4 2020’s $14.64 and were down 4.2% from the Q1 2020 record $15.32 payment,” according to S&P Dow Jones Indices. On an aggregate basis, index components paid $123.9 billion in dividends in the quarter, up from $121.6 billion in Q4 2020.”
A High Dividend ETF for a Topsy-Turvy, Low-Rate World April 15, 2021
Interest rates are low, providing an ideal environment for owning high dividend stocks, but investors should also prepare themselves for less than sanguine market moments. The
SPHD seeks to track the investment results (before fees and expenses) of the S&P 500® Low Volatility High Dividend Index (the “underlying index”). The fund generally will invest at least 90% of its total assets in the securities that comprise the underlying index.
The index provider compiles, maintains, and calculates the underlying index, which is composed of 50 securities in the S&P 500® Index that historically have provided high dividend yields with lower volatility. To get a piece of SPHD, ETF investors are looking at a reasonable net expense ratio of 0.30%.
SDOG: High Dividends through a Beautiful Payout Outlook
The
ALPS Sector Dividend Dogs ETF (SDOG) is a high dividend exchange traded fund and one that’s benefiting from the rotation to cyclical value assets. Yet there’s much more to the story, and that’s a positive for investors.
SDOG tries to reflect the performance of the S-Network Sector Dividend Dogs Index, which applies the “Dogs of the Dow Theory” on a sector-by-sector basis using the S&P 500 with a focus on high dividend exposure. SDOG’s equal-weight methodology is important because it reduces sector-level risk and dependence of some groups that are considered to be imperiled value ideas.
Dividend Growth Is Back. Join the Party with This Model Portfolio April 7, 2021
Dividend growth is returning in a big way, and that scenario couldn’t arrive at a better time with Treasury yields still low.
Advisors can position for what’s expected to be a materially better environment for payout names with the Global Dividend Model Portfolio, which is part of WisdomTree’s Modern Alpha series of model portfolios.
“This model portfolio seeks to provide capital appreciation and high current dividend income, through a globally diversified set of WisdomTree’s dividend income oriented equity ETFs. The model strives to deliver dividend income in excess of the global benchmark of equities,” according to WisdomTree.