Author: Michael Foster, Contrarian Outlook

It holds blue chips like Apple (AAPL), Amazon (AMZN), Visa (V) and recent index addition Tesla (TSLA), but its yield is much higher than the meager 1.5% the S&P indexes pay.

Not only are these names focused on maximizing payouts to shareholders as much as possible, but they also crush the index and have a long history of doing so.

In short, they’re too risky now for the direction the political winds are blowing.