Dividend Steady
free during launchThe calmest, healthiest dividend payers we can see: low volatility, real yield.
Low-volatility names with real earnings yield, drawn from every dividend payer we can see that clears $2B in market value, $20M of daily trading and a financial-health score of 5: about 420 names, against the thirty this strategy used to choose from. Two honest limits. We do not hold dividend HISTORY, so this is not a screen for aristocrats or for streaks of consecutive increases; it asks only whether a company pays today and whether its balance sheet looks able to keep doing it. And we hold a yield for only 40% of the investable universe, so there are payers this screen cannot see rather than payers it rejected. Held quarterly, built for income and shallow drawdowns rather than maximum total return.
Live record, paper-traded nightly since 2026-07-26
T · VZ · DUK · NEE · SO · UPS · PG · PFE · MCD · PEP
The record accrues live from 2026-07-26 and is never backfilled.
Standing backtest · 2012-01-03 → 2026-09-18
| Year | Strategy | Benchmark |
|---|---|---|
| 2012 | +8.0% | +14.2% |
| 2013 | +23.1% | +32.3% |
| 2014 | +7.7% | +13.5% |
| 2015 | +1.2% | +1.2% |
| 2016 | +15.9% | +12.0% |
| 2017 | +14.9% | +21.7% |
| 2018 | -0.3% | -4.6% |
| 2019 | +28.0% | +31.2% |
| 2020 | +6.5% | +18.3% |
| 2021 | +16.4% |
Track records shown are paper-traded model performance, not client returns, and never a promise of future results. Nothing here is personalized investment advice.