What are dividend yield funds?
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Bonus: Comments on HDFC Dividend Yield Fund (NFO)
an important advantage of investing in such funds for large investors is tax arbitrage.
- Scheme will invest a minimum of 65% of corpus in high dividend yield stocks.
- Preference will be given to stocks with a consistent history of paying dividends.
- Stock having higher DY than the Nifty 50 index will be preferred. (Most PSU utility and energy companies qualify).
- Investing in low capital intensive business (Most IT companies).
- Ability to increase dividend payouts.
- Dividend yield at 1x - 2x of 10-year G-sec yield.
- It will be sector and market cap agnostic.
My take on this NFO:
- Most of the stocks in portfolio will be PSU utility & energy cos that have not performed well in terms of share price growth. In some cases, The dividend yield was fully offset by the decline in share price thereby yielding zero or negative returns.
- Valuation could be a cause of concern while investing in FMCG companies even when they have stable dividend payouts. Time correction in such companies may result in below-par returns for the scheme.
- IT companies have displayed stability in terms of dividends along with decent stock price growth and are trading at reasonable valuations. A higher weightage to these companies may result in good performance of the scheme.
- Median expense ratio of this category of funds is around 1.5%. This coupled with lower share price growth stocks could lead to below-par returns.