I screened the index with its 500 companies by the best dividend yields. The index has twenty-eight high yields and the highest yield amounts to 11.11 percent, paid by Pitney Bowes (PBI). In order to focus on the cheapest high yields, I decided to select only those stocks with a current P/E ratio of less than 15. Exactly thirteen companies remained of which seven have a buy or better recommendation.
Here are my favorite stocks:
Exelon Corporation (NYSE:EXC) has a market capitalization of $31.28 billion. The company employs 19,267 people, generates revenues of $18,924.00 million and has a net income of $2,495.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $5,815.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 30.73 percent (operating margin 23.67 percent and the net profit margin finally 13.18 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 24.49 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 93.79 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 17.86 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.03. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.10 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.12, P/S ratio 1.65 and P/B ratio 1.69. Dividend Yield: 5.72 percent. The beta ratio is 0.54.
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| Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Exelon Corporation (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividends History of Exelon Corporation (EXC) (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) (Click to enlarge) |
ConocoPhillips (NYSE:COP) has a market capitalization of $64.73 billion. The company employs 29,700 people, generates revenues of $251,226.00 million and has a net income of $12,502.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $31,891.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 12.69 percent (operating margin 9.16 percent and the net profit margin finally 4.98 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 14.76 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 34.69 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.59 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $9.15. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.64 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 5.59, P/S ratio 0.26 and P/B ratio 1.01. Dividend Yield: 5.16 percent. The beta ratio is 1.12.
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| Long-Term Stock History Chart Of ConocoPhillips (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividends History of ConocoPhillips (COP) (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of ConocoPhillips (NYSE: COP) (Click to enlarge) |
NYSE Euronext (NYSE:NYX) has a market capitalization of $6.02 billion. The company employs 3,079 people, generates revenues of $4,552.00 million and has a net income of $603.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,130.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 24.82 percent (operating margin 18.67 percent and the net profit margin finally 13.25 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 15.87 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 31.53 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 9.25 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.10. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.20 in form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.29, P/S ratio 1.32 and P/B ratio 0.93. Dividend Yield: 5.06 percent. The beta ratio is 1.63.
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| Long-Term Stock History Chart Of NYSE Euronext (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividends History of NYSE Euronext (NYX) (Click to enlarge) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of NYSE Euronext (NYSE: NYX) (Click to enlarge) |
Take a closer look at the full table of cheap S&P 500 High Yields. The average P/E ratio amounts to 10.35
and forward P/E ratio is 9.58. The dividend yield has a value of 5.81 percent.
Price to book ratio is 4.45 and price to sales ratio 1.16. The operating margin
amounts to 19.35 percent.
Here is the full table with
some fundamentals (TTM):
Related stock
ticker symbols:
PBI, GCI, EXC,
CVC, CLF, HRB, PPL, LO, ETR, COP, TE, FII, NYX
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