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Friday August 03, 2012
The Flying Five
by Mark Skousen, editor Forecasts & Strategies  In the August edition of my newsletter each year since 1994, I highlight the “Flying Five Strategy.”To compile this annual portfolio, I recommend purchase of the five Dow Industrial average stocks with the lowest price from a list of the ten-highest yielding Dow stocks. This mechanical technique, created by Michael O’Higgins and John Downs in their 1991 book, “Beating the Dow,” aims to best the stock index by finding bargains in the Dow. Since we’ve followed this technical method of finding bargains, it has worked roughly 70% of the time. It didn’t keep up with the high-tech boom of the late 1990s, and failed miserably in 2008, when three of our Flying Five stocks stopped paying dividends altogether. But most of the time, we’ve beaten the market. And this year was no exception. While the Dow was up only 5% from August 2011 to August 2012, our Flying Five stocks averaged an 18% gain, including dividends. All five of our Flying Five stocks were up in the past 12 months, and all five beat the Dow average:
Here’s how to select this year’s Flying Five. Go to www.dogsofthedow.com and buy the five “small” dogs under “current dogs.” These are the five stocks with the highest dividend yield and lowest price, known as the Flying Five. According to the close on Friday, July 20, when we reset this portfolio, we have three returning stocks in the Flying Five: AT&T, Pfizer and General Electric. We are replacing Intel and Kraft Foods on last year's list. The new members of the Flying Five portfolio are: We'd note that JP Morgan lost $6 billion in the most recent quarter. Talk about a contrarian play! Learn more about this financial newsletter at Mark Skousen's Forecasts & Strategies. Related articles: 
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