Investors partial to sin stocks, and their performances, should consider the funds in the table below.

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Sin stocks also come with a greater risk of lawsuits and increased government regulation than comparable companies.

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Returning to the theme of hatred, we should also consider the peculiar case of sin stocks and particularly tobacco stocks.

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This causes sin stocks to be priced as perpetual value stocks, with the low valuations and fat dividends that this entails.

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One reason why sin stocks outperform: Because some some shun them outright.

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Many sin stocks also pay high dividends, increasing an investor's overall return.

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Investors have gained 2.5 percentage point more per year investing in sin stocks, like Harrah's Entertainment and Diageo (responsible for spirits ranging from Guinness to Smirnoff), than in companies of comparable size in other sectors, according to Harrison Hong and Marcin Kacperczyk, writing in the Journal of Financial Economics.

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His alleged sin:He touted weak telecom stocks to help his firm win banking assignments from those companies.

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