(10-04-2013, 06:59 PM)hendi_alex Wrote: All are characterized as dividend growth stocks. From a brief look at holdings, as much as I could tell, their names should really be 'Total Return' funds. As all pay dividends, but the dividends themselves are not necessarily growing or growing very fast. To me, the ones that I reviewed, seemed to be companies that pay a dividend and which have the characteristics of growth stocks. Any one have a different take than that? DES pays the highest yield at 3.6% according to yahoo.
I think this article breaks down the shortfalls of dividend ETFs pretty well.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1638952-...etfs-doing