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There Are Plenty of Ways to Invest in This Market

April 20, 2021 By E.J. Smith

You have plenty of ways to invest in this market if you’re A) dividend-centric (I am) and/or B) looking for a proxy to some of your bonds. Take a look at the charts below and understand what’s happening in the market today.

Stocks by Dividend Decile

Here you see a breakdown of stocks by dividend yield decile.

The 8th Decile, not the tenth, had the better performance from 1975-2020.

Caitlin McCabe reports at The Wall Street Journal on today’s bull market:

A greater number of stocks have been propelling the U.S. market higher lately, a signal that—if history is any indicator—more gains could be ahead.

What remains up for debate, however, is how smooth the climb will be.

Indicators that point to a stronger and more resilient stock market have been hitting rare milestones recently as the continuing bull run has once again widened. In the past week, stocks ranging from UnitedHealth Group Inc. UNH 0.26% to L Brands Inc. LB 0.09% to Vulcan Materials Co. VMC 0.53% hit 52-week highs, joining 184 others in the S&P 500 that did the same. Those gains have helped extend the benchmark index’s rally for the year to 11%—notching 23 records along the way.

Investors and analysts often look to technical indicators that measure the breadth of the market’s rally for clues about where it is headed next. A market is generally considered healthier when more stocks are rising together, and signs of strong participation are typically viewed as a signal that a rally has legs. In contrast, a market with poor breadth—such as the one in the late 1990s near the peak of the dot-com bubble—indicates fewer stocks with larger market capitalizations are carrying the load.

Lately, signs of strong breadth have abounded, a reversal from much of the past year when a small group of large technology stocks drove much of the market’s gains. Last week, the percentage of stocks in the S&P 500 trading above their 200-day moving averages crossed 95%, rising to the highest level since October 2009, according to data through Thursday. Only during three other periods since the start of 2000 has that measure surpassed and then hovered above 95% for several days, according to a Dow Jones Market Data analysis based on current index constituents.

Action Line: Look for the diamonds in the market today. There are even opportunities for dividend-centric investors if you know what to look for.

Originally posted on Your Survival Guy.

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E.J. Smith
E.J. Smith is Founder of YourSurvivalGuy.com, Managing Director at Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd., a Managing Editor of Richardcyoung.com, and Editor-in-Chief of Youngresearch.com. His focus at all times is on preparing clients and readers for “Times Like These.” E.J. graduated from Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with a B.S. in finance and investments. In 1995, E.J. began his investment career at Fidelity Investments in Boston before joining Richard C. Young & Co., Ltd. in 1998. E.J. has trained at Sig Sauer Academy in Epping, NH. His first drum set was a 5-piece Slingerland with Zilldjians. He grew-up worshiping Neil Peart (RIP) of the band Rush, and loves the song Tom Sawyer—the name of his family’s boat, a Grady-White Canyon 306. He grew up in Mattapoisett, MA, an idyllic small town on the water near Cape Cod. He spends time in Newport, RI and Bartlett, NH—both as far away from Wall Street as one could mentally get. The Newport office is on a quiet, tree lined street not far from the harbor and the log cabin in Bartlett, NH, the “Live Free or Die” state, sits on the edge of the White Mountain National Forest. He enjoys spending time in Key West and Paris.

Please get in touch with E.J. at ejsmith@youngresearch.com
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