S&P 500 Laggards: Pfizer, Nike

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S&P 500 has a lot of winners in its ranks, but there are bound to be some laggards.

Pfizer ( Pfizer ) and Nike ( Nike ) are down year to date in price, yet continue to shower their investors with dividends.

Activist investor Starboard recently bought an anchor stake, and has been agitating for changes.

Nike has declared dividend raises consistently since 2004 .

Free cash flow has been on the rise, providing enough room for the current payout.

At the moment, the company's quarterly distribution is $ 0.37 . This yields 1.9% at the current stock price, comfortably above the 1.3% average of S&P 500 index stocks.

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