Many dividend investment strategies, both active and passive,  often have minimum dividend yield requirements. This methodology eliminates a sizeable portion of their respective investible universes. For example, within the S&P 500 Index, stocks with a dividend yield¹ less than 1.0%, represent 39% of the index constituents².

While that seems like a large proportion, it also includes stocks of companies that do not pay dividends (62% of the cohort and 24% of the index). However, it also includes stocks with dividend yields between 0% and 1.0% (38% of the cohort and 15% of the index) such as Apple, Visa, Nike and Costco. 

What makes Brentview's approach unique is that even though our portfolio overall yield is greater than the S&P 500³, we also focus very carefully on lower yielding stocks and recent dividend initiators. We find that often these are the most robust growers. We try to balance between higher yielding stocks with relatively low earnings growth and lower yielding stocks with higher growth rates. This is something that many other dividend strategies do not incorporate into their portfolio construction framework. 

¹ Forward Dividend Yield
² Source: Morningstar®
³ As of 09/30/2020

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