Below is the 2-year total return performance of our Dividend Watch List from December 4, 2015 to December 2, 2017 as compared to the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
| symbol | Name | 2015-2017 |
| adm | Archer Daniels Midland | 20.73% |
| hog | Harley-Davidson Inc | 11.15% |
| wmt | Wal-Mart Stores | 71.36% |
| pii | Polaris Industries | 33.68% |
| nee | NextEra Energy | 69.87% |
| weys | Weyco Group | 10.71% |
| Questar Corp. | 33.33% | |
| www | Wolverine World Wide | 63.88% |
| sji | South Jersey Industries | 61.51% |
| stt | State Street Corp. | 35.03% |
| gww | W.W. Grainger | 14.01% |
| ottr | Otter Tail Corp. | 96.23% |
| chrw | C.H. Robinson Worldwide | 44.84% |
| bg | Bunge Ltd | 8.87% |
| tif | Tiffany & Co. | 32.48% |
| hni | HNI Corp. | -14.70% |
| vfc | VF Corp. | 16.92% |
| syk | Stryker Corp. | 69.76% |
| sial | Sigma-Aldrich Corp. | 0.17% |
| average % change | 35.78% | |
| DJIA | Dow Jones Industrial Average | 44.21% |
In the one year data related to this entire list of companies the total return gains were +19.33% compared to the DJIA gain of +10.72%. However, in both one year and two year cases, the high dividend stocks generated the highest average total return of +46.30% and +63.63%, respectively.
| category | 2015-2017 | 1-yr |
| top three | 79.15% | 46.30% |
| high yield | 63.69% | 46.30% |
| low yield | 44.60% | -7.06% |
| high p/e | 23.99% | 11.66% |
| low p/e | 34.41% | 25.70% |
Out of the 15 US Dividend Watch Lists that we’ve surveyed so far, the highest performing for each date based on the respective categories are:
