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To: Ditchdigger who wrote (33189)	11/1/2020 12:00:53 PM
From: Steve Felix	1 Recommendation Recommended By JSB Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 34328

It's not just that. Dividend stocks in general are not getting any love in the current market. Using alpha. Stocks with any % yield, which of course contains a lot of crap: Doing better than the market 385 Doing worse than the market 1126 Narrow it down to stocks yielding 1% to 4%: Doing better than the market 330 Doing worse than the market 557 I have no idea why this is, but have begun to track SCHD against the S&P 500 as a way to spot a turn. Essentially the market is flat. Analogies in the past where a monkey throwing darts would have done well. I have 1608 stocks doing better than the market, 2460 doing worse, so odds are 60.4% the monkey hits a loser. I'm thinking the above 887 stocks yielding 1 to 4% comprises a lot of good dividend stocks, yet the monkeys odds of hitting a loser are even worse at 62.7%. Other than the market does what it does, I don't get it. Just thinking, this too shall pass.