I screened the 52 Dividend
Aristocrats by the highest return on investment (ROI) and observed only the
stocks with a return on investment of more than 15 percent. Fifteen companies fulfilled
the mentioned criteria of which eight are currently recommended to buy.
Here are my favorite
stocks:
McDonald's (NYSE:MCD) has a market capitalization of $91.71 billion. The company employs 420,000 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 $9,766.70 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 36.16 percent (operating margin 31.58 percent and the net profit margin finally 20.38 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 37.89 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 86.87 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 37.92 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.35. 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 16.86, P/S ratio 3.41 and P/B ratio 6.42. Dividend Yield: 3.09 percent. The beta ratio is 0.44.
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| Long-Term Stock History Chart Of McDonald's Corpor... (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividends History of McDonald's Corpor... (MCD) (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of McDonald's Corpor... (NYSE: MCD) (Click to enlarge) |
Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) has a market capitalization of $171.41 billion. The company employs 146,200 people, generates revenues of $46,542.00 million and has a net income of $8,634.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $12,596.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 27.06 percent (operating margin 23.06 percent and the net profit margin finally 18.55 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 35.72 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 90.31 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 27.37 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.77. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.88 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 20.18, P/S ratio 3.69 and P/B ratio 5.44. Dividend Yield: 2.68 percent. The beta ratio is 0.52.
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| Long-Term Stock History Chart Of The Coca-Cola Com... (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividends History of The Coca-Cola Com... (KO) (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of The Coca-Cola Com... (NYSE: KO) (Click to enlarge) |
Franklin Resources (NYSE:BEN) has a market capitalization of $23.07 billion. The company employs 8,451 people, generates revenues of $7,140.04 million and has a net income of $1,820.78 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,742.23 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 38.41 percent (operating margin 37.25 percent and the net profit margin finally 25.50 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 15.74 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 25.44 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.57 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $8.68. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.00 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.36, P/S ratio 3.29 and P/B ratio 2.79. Dividend Yield: 0.99 percent. The beta ratio is 1.49.
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| Long-Term Dividends History of Franklin Resource... (BEN) (Click to enlarge) |
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Take a closer look at the full table of the most profitable Dividend Aristocrats. The average price to earnings
ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 18.29 and forward P/E ratio is 15.04. The dividend
yield has a value of 2.27 percent. Price to book ratio is 6.06 and price to
sales ratio 2.39. The operating margin amounts to 20.79 percent and the beta
ratio is 0.76. The average stock has a ROI of 19.11 percent.
Here is the full table with
some fundamentals (TTM):
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Related stock
ticker symbols:
CLX, GPC, MCD,
ADP, XOM, MMM, KO, CL, MHP, TROW, GWW, SHW, FDO, SIAL, BEN
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I am long MCD, KO, CL. I
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I don't plan to increase or decrease positions or obligations within the next
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For the other stocks: I
have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any
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