Best Dividend Growth Shares For 2012 by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Last year I made a list of companies with interesting equity stories I love to buy (Here is the link: 25 Top Dividend And Growth Stock Picks For 2011). One year later I reviewed these stocks. They have an impressive year to date performance. The average portfolio generated an average equal weighted return of 12.35 percent without dividend payments. At the beginning of the year, the yield of the portfolio was 3.15 percent. So, the total return of the picks should be around percent 15.5 percent. Not bad if we regard the return of the Dow Jones (5.53 percent), the Standard & Poor’s Index (0 percent) and the year performance from NASDAQ Composite (-1.8 percent).
Here is the performance review from my 2011 picks:
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| 25 Top Dividend And Growth Stock Picks For 2011 In Review (Click to enlarge) |
Now, I updated my favorite picks for 2012. I excluded some retailer and added more consumer products companies as well as food stocks.
Here are the 4 top dividend stocks by dividend yield:
Altria Group (NYSE:MO) has a market capitalization of $60.97 billion. The company employs 10,000 people, generates revenues of $24,363.00 million and has a net income of $3,907.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $6,504.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 26.70 percent (operating margin 25.56 percent and the net profit margin finally 16.04 percent).
The total debt representing 32.60 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 234.86 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 84.01 percent. Twelve trailing months earnings per share amounts to $1.67. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.46 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 17.75, Price/Sales 2.50 and Price/Book ratio 11.93. Dividend Yield: 5.53 percent. The beta ratio is 0.43.
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| Long-Term Stock Chart Of Altria Group, Inc. (Click to enlarge) |
Avon Products (NYSE:AVP) has a market capitalization of $7.53 billion. The company employs 42,000 people, generates revenues of $10,862.80 million and has a net income of $595.20 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,267.90 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 11.67 percent (operating margin 9.88 percent and the net profit margin finally 5.48 percent).
The total debt representing 39.83 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 189.33 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 40.02 percent. Twelve trailing months earnings per share amounts to $1.70. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.88 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.29, Price/Sales 0.69 and Price/Book ratio 4.53. Dividend Yield: 5.27 percent. The beta ratio is 1.40.
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| Long-Term Stock Chart Of Avon Products, Inc. (Click to enlarge) |
Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has a market capitalization of $22.07 billion. The company employs 57,900 people, generates revenues of $13,070.00 million and has a net income of $933.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,048.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 23.32 percent (operating margin 10.38 percent and the net profit margin finally 7.14 percent).
The total debt representing 21.16 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 38.91 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 4.72 percent. Twelve trailing months earnings per share amounts to $1.67. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.16 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.97, Price/Sales 1.69 and Price/Book ratio 1.16. Dividend Yield: 4.65 percent. The beta ratio is 0.95.
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| Long-Term Stock Chart Of Thomson Reuters Corp. ... (Click to enlarge) |
NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) has a market capitalization of $6.84 billion. The company employs 3,074 people, generates revenues of $4,425.00 million and has a net income of $558.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,026.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 23.19 percent (operating margin 16.84 percent and the net profit margin finally 12.61 percent).
The total debt representing 18.24 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 35.90 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 8.44 percent. Twelve trailing months earnings per share amounts to $2.45. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.20 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.64, Price/Sales 1.55 and Price/Book ratio 1.00. Dividend Yield: 4.60 percent. The beta ratio is 1.63.
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| Long-Term Stock Chart Of NYSE Euronext (Click to enlarge) |
Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):
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| My Favorite Dividend Stock Picks For 2012 (Click to enlarge) |
Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 15.49 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 13.42. The dividend yield has a value of 3.26 percent. Price to book ratio is 6.95 and price to sales ratio 1.70. The operating margin amounts to 16.34 percent.
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