

All total returns include reinvested dividends: Company Have performed this year and during the third quarter, along with some information about analysts’ opinions of the stocks. On that note, here’s how all 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average But look at the 15-year returns - the utilities sector ranks third. With interest rates declining dramatically during the third quarter as the Federal Reserve reversed course, it may not be a surprise to see that the utilities sector (with its generally high dividend yields) performed best during the third quarter. Here’s how the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 have performed: S&P 500 sector So we cannot predict when this bull market will end. Make the 1.98% dividend yield for the S&P 500 attractive. That and the 1.74% yield for 10-year U.S. Bonds with negative yields to maturity total more than $17 trillion, according to Bloomberg. Then again, the world remains awash with cash as central banks in the developed world continue to be extraordinarily accommodative as they attempt to stave off possible recessions. 26 at $27, two dollars below its initial offering price. PelotonĪctually made it to market, but the shares started trading on Sept. Another is Endeavor’s second failure this year to take itself public. The WeWork fiasco - leading to the ouster, sort of, of co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann - is a telling example. One sign of a frothy market is the seemingly new perception that assumptions about valuations for certain startup companies have been fantastic.
