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The "Dogs of the Dow" Myth

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  • Hirschey, Mark

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The "Dogs of the Dow" (or "Dow Dog") investment strategy, is a popular investment approach that promises huge abnormal returns for investors in the ten top yielding stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). However, periods of evident outperformance are balanced by periods of conspicuous underperformance. When strategy returns are adjusted for taxes and rebalancing costs, Dow Dogs perform in line with the DJIA over the 1961-98 period. As a result, there is no robust evidence of an average return anomaly tied to Dow Dogs. Copyright 2000 by MIT Press.

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  • Hirschey, Mark, 2000. "The "Dogs of the Dow" Myth," The Financial Review, Eastern Finance Association, vol. 35(2), pages 1-15, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:finrev:v:35:y:2000:i:2:p:1-15
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    1. Carol Alexander & Anca Dimitriu, 2003. "Equity Indexing: Conitegration and Stock Price Dispersion: A Regime Switiching Approach to market Efficiency," ICMA Centre Discussion Papers in Finance icma-dp2003-02, Henley Business School, University of Reading.
    2. Carol Alexander & Anca Dimitriu, 2005. "Indexing, cointegration and equity market regimes," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 10(3), pages 213-231.
    3. Da Silva, Andre L. C., 2001. "Empirical tests of the Dogs of the Dow strategy in Latin American stock markets," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 10(2), pages 187-199.
    4. Carol Wang & James E. Larsen & Fall M. Ainina & Marlena L. Akhbari & Nicolas Gressis, 2011. "Why the Dogs of the Dow Bark Loudly in China," American Journal of Economics and Business Administration, Science Publications, vol. 3(3), pages 560-568, November.

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