Here are the current (20 minute delayed) Foolish Four, Beating the S&P, High Yield and Beating the Dow rankings, as well as the price, dividend and yield statistics for all thirty individual DJIA and BSP30 components.
Foolish Four Stock History,
This table lists the return of each Foolish Four stock each year from
1961 to 1999.
Performance History of the Foolish Four, This is a table showing the annual returns for the Foolish Four and two other RP-based strategies along with the returns for the Dow and S&P 500. Also included are 5, 10 and 20 year rolling returns.
Performance History of Other Dow Strategies, 1961 - 1999
This is a table showing the annual returns for the High Yield 5 and 10 stock strategies (Dogs of the Dow), plus the Beating the Dow 5 and two earlier versions of the Foolish Four. Also included are 5, 10 and 20 year rolling returns.
Cumulative Returns: $10,000 becomes...
Mutual funds often report their returns in terms of how much a $10,000 investment, made at some point in the past, would have grown to by the present day. This table compares the Foolish Four, Dow 30 and S&P 500 in those terms.
Dow Investing Stock History, 1961-1998
Dow Returns: 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996
Yearly returns for many Dow Investing and Foolish Four strategies, the major market indices, and the thirty stocks that were the DJIA component stocks each year.
Dow Spin Off Calculations, 1999, 1997, 1996
Almost every year, a few companies among the DJIA 30 spin off divisions which
then trade as independent companies. And since each one is handled differently,
there's never an easy way to figure out the revised cost basis in the parent
company and the new basis in the spun-off company. Because so many readers
want help with this question, we'll keep a running record here of any spin-offs
throughout the year related to DJIA companies that may be in your Foolish
Four portfolios.
1961-1999
1961 - 1999
This is a downloadable file in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) file format. Click the link above to download the file that details the 38-year history of the Foolish Four, High Yield 10 (Dogs of the Dow), and Beating the Dow stock strategies and several of the major variations on each. The file lists each stock selected for each strategy, and the subsequent return from that stock, year by year. You will need the Acrobat Reader 3.0, or higher, to view the file. If you don't have this free program on your computer already, you may download it here.