SDIV: Global, High Dividend Exchange Traded Fund (ETF), Good Diversity.

Are you looking for a single ETF or mutual fund to help give you great diversification and a high dividend?  You should consider an international ETF which produces a high dividend.  SDIV, an ETF (Exchange Traded Fund) from Global-X Funds, does that.


As of June 2014, the 12 Month Dividend Yield is 6.01%.   The Total Annual Fund Operating Expense is 0.58%.     


In terms of country breakdown, 25.81% is invested in the United States, 17.85% in Australia, 9.14% in Canada, 8.14% in France, 7.69% in the U.K., 6.01% in Singapore, and so on.


In terms of industry, Financials occupies 20% of the portfolio, REITs (Real Estate Investment Trusts) 15%, Utilities 13.5%, Telecom Services, 12.2%, Mortgage REITs 10.6%, Energy 9.2%, Industrials 5.03%, Consumer Discretionary, 4.8%, Health Care 2.8%, Materials 2.7%, and Info Tech at 2.1%.  


SDIV could be a great way to get high dividend diversification.   And if you can find SDIV in a commission free program by your broker, you could invest in SDIV cheaply (because you have no commission fee) in an automatic investment plan where you invest some regular sum at regular intervals.   Watch your reinvested dividends (especially in a high dividend ETF), grow.   Experts often say that reinvested dividends is a great way to grow your money.

Stock Chart: PFE, Pfizer (June 15, 2007)

PFE, Pfizer, appears to be in the middle of an ascending right triangle, a bullish formation. The stock does not have the strength to break upper resistance. However, as the stock goes lower, at each stage, buyers support the stock at higher levels, creating higher lows. As the stock trades closer to the end of the triangle, buying pressure may be so strong, that the stock could breakout possibly on good volume.

Many technical buyers would like to buy the breakout above the triangle, ideally when the breakout is accompanied by good volume.

However, some could argue that the patient investor (who cares more about fundamentals than technicals or charts) can invest within the triangle. The justification of this is that a stock like Pfizer (PFE) pays a good dividend yield (currently at 4.30%). While waiting for the stock to breakout, the patient investor can reinvest dividends at lower prices.

For a real life example of a breakout off an ascending triangle, see Hansen Natural (HANS) example right here.

Here's a current day stock chart of Pfizer with the aid of the tools at StockCharts.com .