I was contacted by a reader about the performance of 5 dividend stocks that I selected last May.The original article focused on Companies with outstanding dividend yields. He judged the performance of the five stocks over a one year time period. The 5 stocks that I selected were BP, Altria, Verizon, AT&T, and Total. Let’s see how my dividend picks did.
Here are the stats from the Dividend Inc.
| Name | Ticker | unadjusted | adjusted | |||
| BP | BP | 43.86 | 43.06 | 45 | 2.60% | 4.51% |
| AT&T | T | 24.85 | 23.4 | 31.32 | 26.04% | 33.85% |
| Total | TOT | 47.57 | 43.52 | 56.72 | 19.23% | 30.33% |
| Verizon | VZ | 27.96 | 26.37 | 37.15 | 32.87% | 40.88% |
| Altria | MO | 21.01 | 19.72 | 27.74 | 32.03% | 40.67% |
| Average return | 22.55% | 30.05% | ||||
The average capital appreciation for each stock was 22.5% and the dividends added another 8% to the investment portfolio. Total was my best pick. I just knew that the oil company was way too undervalued.
A 30.05% return on investment is pretty good. That beats the S&P 500 Index’s performance over the past year.
Good picks with nice results. Too bad I missed the original article.
Nice job. Cool to see that someone else was following as well!
Nice! But the real big money is in technical analysis