DES

Todays market close, closes out the month of trading for February 2021. The S&P 500 finished up 2.91% for the month. A lot of talk has been about yesterdays selloff

WisdomTree SmallCap Dividend ETF (DES) declares $0.13/share monthly dividend, 100% increase from prior dividend of $0.07.Forward yield 5.97%Payable Dec. 24; for shareholders of record Dec. 22; ex-div Dec. 21.See DES

These are go-go days for small-cap stocks and the related exchange-traded funds. The widely followed Russell 2000 Index jumped 18.29% in November, good for its best monthly performance on record.

WisdomTree SmallCap Dividend ETF (DES) declares $0.06/share monthly dividend, 33.3% increase from prior dividend of $0.04.Forward yield 3.34%Payable Oct. 30; for shareholders of record Oct. 28; ex-div Oct. 27.See DES

DES tracks the WisdomTree U.S. SmallCap Dividend Index that includes the bottom 25% of stocks from the DI and is reconstituted annually.With 638 holdings, DES is much more diversified than DLN and DON, which have 279 and 332 holdings, respectively. Only seven stocks have a weight greater than 1%.The fund has an appealing standardized yield of 4.2%.Though the fund is overweight in the financial sector that has questionable upside, its significant exposure to industrials is supportive of short-term price gains.

The Federal Reserve took interest rates to near zero and Treasury yields are tumbling, putting added emphasis on steady streams of income, including monthly dividend ETFs.As their name implies, exchange-traded funds with monthly dividends deliver distribut...

The Federal Reserve took interest rates to near zero and Treasury yields are tumbling, putting added emphasis on steady streams of income, including monthly dividend ETFs.As their name implies, exchange-traded funds with monthly dividends deliver distribut...