I made a screen of the best yielding Dividend
Contenders, starting at a yield of more than five percent. Fifteen companies remained
of which five are currently recommended to buy.
Here are my favorite stocks:
Kinder Morgan Energy Partners (NYSE:KMP) has a market capitalization of $29.80 billion. The company employs 8,120 people, generates revenue of $8.211 billion and has a net income of $1.268 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2.617 billion. The EBITDA margin is 31.88 percent (the operating margin is 20.34 percent and the net profit margin 15.45 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 53.18 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 170.74 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 1.16 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.55. Last fiscal year, the company paid $4.61 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 52.72, the P/S ratio is 3.63 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.79. The dividend yield amounts to 6.17 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.36.
Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Kinder Morgan Ene... (Click to enlarge) |
Long-Term Dividends History of Kinder Morgan Ene... (KMP) (Click to enlarge) |
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Kinder Morgan Ene... (NYSE: KMP) (Click to enlarge) |
Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) has a market capitalization of $29.10 billion. The company employs 123,000 people, generates revenue of $46.499 billion and has a net income of $2.667 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4.903 billion. The EBITDA margin is 10.54 percent (the operating margin is 8.56 percent and the net profit margin 5.74 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 17.04 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 645.35 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 118.59 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $8.76. Last fiscal year, the company paid $3.25 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.27, the P/S ratio is 0.63 and the P/B ratio is finally 29.05. The dividend yield amounts to 5.12 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.94.
Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Lockheed Martin C... (Click to enlarge) |
Long-Term Dividends History of Lockheed Martin C... (LMT) (Click to enlarge) |
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Lockheed Martin C... (NYSE: LMT) (Click to enlarge) |
PPL Corporation (NYSE:PPL) has a market capitalization of $16.68 billion. The company employs 17,722 people, generates revenue of $12.737 billion and has a net income of $1.510 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4.309 billion. The EBITDA margin is 33.83 percent (the operating margin is 24.30 percent and the net profit margin 11.86 percent).
Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 43.54 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 171.51 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 15.62 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.95. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.40 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.74, the P/S ratio is 1.31 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.53. The dividend yield amounts to 5.01 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.39.
Long-Term Stock History Chart Of PPL Corporation (Click to enlarge) |
Long-Term Dividends History of PPL Corporation (PPL) (Click to enlarge) |
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) (Click to enlarge) |
Take a closer look at the full table of high yield Dividend Contenders. The average P/E ratio amounts to 19.04
and forward P/E ratio is 26.30. The dividend yield has a value of 6.86 percent.
Price to book ratio is 2.75 and price to sales ratio 3.89. The operating margin
amounts to 26.95 percent. The average stock has a debt to equity ratio of 1.04.
Here is the full table with
some fundamentals (TTM):
15 Hig-Yield Dividend Contenders (Click to enlarge) |
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ticker symbols:
NS, VGR, BPL,
SPH, OHI, TCP, ARLP, KMP, JCS, PBCT, WPC, UBA, LMT, NNN, PPL
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