Here are the Dogs of the Dow for 2017. The table lists the ten highest yielding Dow stocks as of the close on December 31, 2016. These ten stocks are 2017’s Dogs of the Dow. 2017’s Small Dogs of the Dow are the five stocks with the lowest closing price are, so a subset of the Dogs of the Dow.
The performance over 2016 has been 16.1% for the 10 Dogs of the Dow, versus 11.7% for the Dow Index and 10.3% for the small dogs
See below the dogs of the last 2 year.
Dogs of the Dow 2016
| Symbol | Company | Price | Yield | Small Dog |
| The Dow stocks ranked by yield on 12/31/15 | on 12/31/15 | on 12/31/15 | on 12/31/15 | |
| VZ | Verizon | 46.22 | 4.89% | Yes |
| CVX | Chevron | 89.96 | 4.76% | No |
| CAT | Caterpillar | 67.96 | 4.53% | No |
| IBM | International Business Machines | 137.62 | 3.78% | No |
| XOM | ExxonMobil | 77.95 | 3.75% | No |
| PFE | Pfizer | 32.28 | 3.72% | Yes |
| MRK | Merck | 52.82 | 3.48% | Yes |
| PG | Procter & Gamble | 79.41 | 3.34% | No |
| WMT | Wal-Mart | 61.30 | 3.20% | Yes |
| CSCO | Cisco Systems | 27.16 | 3.09% | Yes |
Dogs of the Dow 2015
The Dogs of 2015 outperformed the Dow Jones again.The Dow Jones ytd change was -2.1% versus the Dogs ytd performance of -1.2% and the small dogs of the dow 6.0% (all excluding dividends)
See below the 2015 Dogs, please note AT&T was replaced by Apple on March 18, 2015.:
| Symbol | Company | Price | Yield | Small Dog |
| The Dow stocks ranked by yield on 12/31/14 | on 12/31/14 | on 12/31/14 | on 12/31/14 | |
| T | AT&T | 33.59 | 5.48% | Yes |
| VZ | Verizon | 46.78 | 4.70% | Yes |
| CVX | Chevron | 112.18 | 3.82% | No |
| MCD | McDonald’s | 93.70 | 3.63% | No |
| PFE | Pfizer | 31.15 | 3.60% | Yes |
| GE | General Electric | 25.27 | 3.48% | Yes |
| MRK | Merck | 56.79 | 3.17% | No |
| CAT | Caterpillar | 91.53 | 3.06% | No |
| XOM | ExxonMobil | 92.45 | 2.99% | No |
| KO | Coca-Cola | 42.22 | 2.89% | Yes |
