Avoid Dividend Stocks in Rally: Masters
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Investors could see the market continue to climb but should avoid higher-dividend yielding stocks, Seth Masters of Bernstein Global Wealth Management said Monday.
"Actually, I would agree that the thing to not do is to go after the higher-dividend yielding stocks that actually now make up much more of the index than they ever have before," he said. "They're now 44 percent of the index. The long-term average is only a third."
On CNBC's "Fast Money," Masters said that higher beta stocks would be preferable, adding that he was bullish on most sectors.
"The reasons why we like stocks is because the fundamentals incredibly good," he said. "Balance sheets have been as good as they've ever been.
"If stay there and continue to see decent growth in the economy, which is what we expect, there's a lot of room, we think, for stocks to have a decent return. It's not going to be stratospheric, but it could be high single digits."
Masters said those levels of returns were far better than the sub-2 percent yields in 10-year Treasuries.
Retail investors also could lead the market higher, he added, noting that the biggest buyer of stocks have been companies themselves.
"The retail investors have nothing to do with the fact that the S&P is up 130 percent since March of '09," he said. "So I think that actually the stock market could go up with the retail investor there or not."
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