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Dow Jones Ind. Average-components (1999-2016)

Dow Jones Ind. Average-components (1999-10/2016)
(9 selected stocks of the DJIA-universe)

In the last years, but also in the recent decades, people want to call the "BUY & HOLD"-Strategy over and gone. Well, following charts might tell a different story. Take a look:


Selected Dow Jones Ind. Average-components (1999 - Oct. 2016)

The "Portfolio 1", consisting ONLY of 9 selected Dow Jones Industrial Average-components which were also part of the DJIA back in the year 1999 (!), before the .COM-Bubble finally burst is still holding up strong against its own mothership, the Dow Jones IA, but also against the very broad Stock-Market, indicated by the S&P 500 (Price Index, and Total Return). The following diagram shows how this "Buy & Hold"-idea performed from 2007 until Oct. 2016:

In the last chart one can see a selection of 17 Dow Jones IA-components which outperformed the Dow Jones Industrial Average in the last 5 years (period covered Oct. 2011 - Nov. 2016):

Here a selection of these 17 stocks and sectors they are covering:

IT
aapl (consumer)
msft
csco

Pharma
pfe
jnj
mrk
unh

Finance
trv
--GS (incl. in the DJIA after the year 2000)
jpm
--V (incl. in the DJIA after thh years 2000)

Industrials
mmm
ge
ba

Consumer
nke
dis
hd 

Dow Jones Industrial Average-components "Come & Go": http://graphics.wsj.com/djia-components-history

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2016-11-13 18:34:23