Sentence examples for dividend index from inspiring English sources

So far this year, the Dow Jones Select U.S. Dividend index is up 1.9 percent, while the S.& P. 500 is down 2.5 percent, including dividends.

For instance, shares of companies that paid dividends returned nearly 8 percent a year, on average, since the start of 2000, based on the Dow Jones U.S. Select Dividend index.

This is a fundamentally weighed index that measures the performance of the highest dividend-yielding stocks selected from the WisdomTree Emerging Markets Dividend Index.

Two popular funds are the Dow Jones Select Dividend Index, with a 2.95% yield, and the PowerShares Dividend Achievers 50 Index, with a 2.94% yield.

For example: "Dividend indexes outperform capitalized-weighted indexes".

Over 25% of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats Index, an index made up of firms that have increased dividends for the last 25 consecutive years, are staples companies.

In the second years of the last two bull markets, dividend-payers — as measured by the Standard & Poor's 500 Dividend Aristocrats index — have beaten the overall S.& P. 500 by an average of nearly 6 percentage points.

Meanwhile, individual stocks you plan to hold, stocks that produce dividend income, index and exchange-traded funds that generate long-term capital gains and tax-free municipal bonds belong in taxable accounts.

The Dividend Aristocrats Index has outperformed the S&P 500 over the last decade, with lower volatility.

The Dividend Aristocrats Index is made up of just 53 stocks in the S&P 500 that each have 25 or more years of consecutive dividend increases.

While the Dividend Aristocrats Index is filled with high-quality dividend growth stocks, not all are set for strong performance in 2019.