Asia’s Best Yielding Dividend Companies – An Overview

The Best Yielding Asia Stocks At The U.S. Capital Market Researched by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The growth of the economy is slowing but it seems that we will reach a soft-landing. Recently published forecasts of the economic growth show that the highest GDP growth will be realized in Asia and Latin America. Europe should get a negative growth due to the debt crisis. 

I’ve tried to screen all listed stocks with headquarter in Asia (American Depositary Receipts) by the best yielding stocks. There are 308 Asian companies of which 70 pay dividends. In order to restrict my criteria, I decided to list only stocks with a market capitalization of more than USD 2 billion as well as a dividend yield above 3 percent. Exactly 15 companies remained. 5 of them are high yields and 6 have a buy or better recommendation by brokerage firms.

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Philippine Long Distance Telephone (NYSE:PHI) has a market capitalization of $11.91 billion. The company employs 28,770 people, generates revenues of $3,364.99 million and has a net income of $937.78 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,915.23 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 56.92 percent (operating margin 38.46 percent and the net profit margin finally 27.87 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 32.28 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 92.40 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 42.57 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $-3.66. Last fiscal year, the company paid $5.10 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is is not calculable, Price/Sales 4.09 and Price/Book ratio 5.48. Dividend Yield: 5.67 percent. The beta ratio is 0.65.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Philippine Long Distan... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Philippine Long Distan... (PHI) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Philippine Long Distan... (NYSE: PHI) (Click to enlarge)

China Mobile (NYSE:CHL) has a market capitalization of $206.07 billion. The company employs 170,019 people, generates revenues of $76,941.41 million and has a net income of $19,031.79 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $37,587.57 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 48.85 percent (operating margin 31.07 percent and the net profit margin finally 24.74 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 1.16 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 1.74 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 22.10 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.81. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.06 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.67, Price/Sales 2.68 and Price/Book ratio 2.26. Dividend Yield: 3.97 percent. The beta ratio is 0.49.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of China Mobile Ltd. (ADR) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of China Mobile Ltd. (ADR) (CHL) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of China Mobile Ltd. (ADR) (NYSE: CHL) (Click to enlarge)

Guangshen Railway (NYSE:GSH) has a market capitalization of $2.60 billion. The company employs 31,985 people, generates revenues of $2,138.18 million and has a net income of $235.46 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $558.60 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 26.12 percent (operating margin 16.00 percent and the net profit margin finally 11.01 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 11.34 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 14.37 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 6.27 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.99. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.71 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.20, Price/Sales 1.70 and Price/Book ratio 0.67. Dividend Yield: 3.82 percent. The beta ratio is 1.16.

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Long-Term Dividends History of Guangshen Railway Co. ... (GSH) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Guangshen Railway Co. ... (NYSE: GSH) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 13.06 and forward P/E ratio is 15.42. The dividend yield has a value of 4.03 percent. Price to book ratio is 1.80 and price to sales ratio 1.71. The operating margin amounts to 19.53 percent.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

Asia’s Best Yielding Dividend Companies – An Overview (Click to enlarge)

Related stock ticker symbols:

UMC, CHT, PHI, SKM, SPIL, HNP, TLK, SHI, CHL, GSH, YZC, TSM, PTR, CAJ, NSANY

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