Below is the performance of the January 22, 2017 Canadian Dividend Watch List:
symbol | name | %change |
MRU.TO | MetroInc. | -1.41% |
SJ.TO | Stella-Jones Inc. | 24.32% |
FFH.TO | Fairfax Financial Holdings | 9.39% |
PJC-A.TO | The Jean Coutu Group | 19.95% |
ACD.TO | Accord Financial Corp. | 2.22% |
EMA.TO | Emera Incorporated | 0.91% |
ET.TO | Evertz Technologies Limited | 6.65% |
BCE.TO | BCE Inc. | -1.58% |
CUF-UN.TO | Cominar REIT | -0.48% |
The average gain for the watch list was +6.66% while the gain for the Toronto Stock Exchange over the same period was +4.98%. When broken down to the respective fundamental categories by only choosing the top three stocks, we get the following returns:
high p/b | 1.22% |
high yield | 1.53% |
high p/e | 2.91% |
low p/b | 3.71% |
watch list | 6.66% |
low p/e | 8.69% |
low yield | 10.77% |
TSX | 4.98% |
As we said in our December 13, 2017 Dogs of the TSX posting, “Note that all of the low categories performed better while all the high categories performed the worst. This has been borne out in the few Canadian Dividend Watch List performance reviews that we’ve done so far.” It appears that anyone buying Canadian stocks using the high yield methodology is underperforming when there are better alternatives.
Below is the January Dividend Watch List along with the our update on the Dogs of the TSX 60, the results are instructive.