State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust

DIA

Market cap $44.2B

This educational screen ranks large-cap dividend stocks by combining dividend yield with free cash flow yield, emphasizing income plus cash-generation strength. Each stock must already pay a dividend and have free cash flow yield above dividend yield to pass the screen. The portfolio selects one qualifying company from each of the 11 market sectors to improve sector diversification.

On May 26, 1896, Charles Dow calculated a simple arithmetic average of 12 industrial stocks and arrived at a closing value of 40.94. Now, exactly 130 years later, that same benchmark has crossed the historic 50,000 threshold.

The choice between the SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF (NYSEARCA:DIA | DIA Price Prediction) and the Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (NYSEARCA:VOO) looks like a debate about diversification (30 stocks versus 500), but the real question is which weighting scheme deserves your money.

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Designed to provide broad exposure to the Large Cap Value segment of the US equity market, the State Street SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (DIA) is a passively managed exchange traded fund launched on January 13, 1998.

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