Our economy goes through various business cycles and economic cycles that always result in a few sectors and industries outperforming the others during every bull and bear phase. 2017 was a bull market that was primarily driven by the technology, healthcare and aerospace and defense sectors.
Though certain sectors might do well in terms of capital appreciation, dividend investors don’t necessarily care about that. They care about security of capital and a yield that can replace their daily expenses. So while companies like Amazon and Tesla were the talk of 2017, they will never be on dividend investors’ radars, as they don’t pay a dividend.
Below we’ll focus on the sectors and industries that dividend investors loved this year. There were outperformers like Raytheon Liquid error: internal , Realty Income Corp. (O ) , Honeywell (HON ) and Union Pacific (UNP ); however, was this movement more stock-specific or driven by favorable sector or industry dynamics? We’ll find out below.
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