The Best Dividend Paying Restaurant Operator

The Highest Yielding Stocks From The Restaurants Industry Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Food store concepts are interesting growth opportunities. If they also pay good dividends, they should be a part of your portfolio. I analyzed the restaurants industry by the best yielding operator. Nearly 50 companies are listed of which 16 pay dividends. The average industry yield amounts to 2.4 percent; price to earnings ratio is 21.4.

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Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) has a market capitalization of $6.54 billion. The company employs 180,000 people, generates revenues of $7,500.20 million and has a net income of $478.70 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,057.60 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 14.10 percent (operating margin 8.63 percent and the net profit margin finally 6.38 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 30.16 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 85.16 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 25.00 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.26. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.28 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.61, Price/Sales 0.87 and Price/Book ratio 3.51. Dividend Yield: 3.40 percent. The beta ratio is 0.89.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE: DRI) (Click to enlarge)

McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) has a market capitalization of $102.31 billion. The company employs 400,000 people, generates revenues of $27,006.00 million and has a net income of $5,503.10 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $8,351.70 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 30.93 percent (operating margin 31.58 percent and the net profit margin finally 20.38 percent).


Financial Analysis:
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.27. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.53 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 18.97, Price/Sales 3.76 and Price/Book ratio 7.67. Dividend Yield: 2.82 percent. The beta ratio is 0.44.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of McDonald's Corporation (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of McDonald's Corporation (MCD) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of McDonald's Corporation (NYSE: MCD) (Click to enlarge)

Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) has a market capitalization of $30.02 billion. The company employs 52,920 people, generates revenues of $12,626.00 million and has a net income of $1,335.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,443.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 19.35 percent (operating margin 14.38 percent and the net profit margin finally 10.57 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 37.55 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 181.95 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 77.61 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.74. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.07 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 23.83, Price/Sales 2.36 and Price/Book ratio 16.33. Dividend Yield: 1.76 percent. The beta ratio is 0.94.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Yum! Brands, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 22.34 and forward P/E ratio is 17.69. The dividend yield has a value of 1.89 percent. Price to book ratio is 4.62 and price to sales ratio 1.07. The operating margin amounts to 9.66 percent.

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

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