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Half-Time Report: The Best Performing Technology Dividend Stocks And Which Of Them Are Still Cheap

Technology dividend stocks with highest year-to-date performance originally published at "long-term-investments.blogspot.com". Today I like to continue my monthly screen serial with technology stocks. I screened the technology capital sector by dividend stocks with the highest year-to-date stock performance.

The 20 most successful companies have realized a performance between 192.46 percent and 48.71 percent. You could make real money if you have had the right technology ideas but the risk is also very high. Most of the results are small Caps with a market capitalization below USD 1 billion. The average capital gain was 79.15 percent. Despite the strong stock price hike, eleven of them still have a buy or better rating.

Here are the cheapest results in terms of forward price-to-earnings:
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE:HPQ) has a market capitalization of $48.56 billion. The company employs 331,800 people, generates revenue of $120.357 billion and has a net income of $-12.650 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $14.456 billion. The EBITDA margin is 12.01 percent (the operating margin is -9.19 percent and the net profit margin -10.51 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 26.14 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 126.74 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of -41.43 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $-6.80. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.50 in the form of dividends to shareholders. Forward P/E: 6.87.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is not calculable, the P/S ratio is 0.40 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.20. The dividend yield amounts to 2.31 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.19.


Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ)

Giant Interactive Group (NYSE:GA) has a market capitalization of $1.84 billion. The company employs 1,844 people, generates revenue of $351.01 million and has a net income of $175.85 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $264.83 million. The EBITDA margin is 75.45 percent (the operating margin is 60.65 percent and the net profit margin 50.10 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 0.00 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 0.00 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 34.79 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.69. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.43 in the form of dividends to shareholders. Forward P/E: 7.76.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.34, the P/S ratio is 5.31 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.55. The dividend yield amounts to 5.40 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.91.


Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Giant Interactive Group (GA)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Giant Interactive Group (GA)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Giant Interactive Group (GA)

Western Digital (NASDAQ:WDC) has a market capitalization of $15.04 billion. The company employs 103,111 people, generates revenue of $12.478 billion and has a net income of $1.612 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2.951 billion. The EBITDA margin is 23.65 percent (the operating margin is 14.19 percent and the net profit margin 12.92 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 15.38 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 28.49 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 24.50 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $7.88. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.00 in the form of dividends to shareholders. Forward P/E: 7.93.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 8.02, the P/S ratio is 1.20 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.03. The dividend yield amounts to 1.58 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.49.


Long-Term Stock Price Chart Of Western Digital (WDC)
Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Western Digital (WDC)
Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Western Digital (WDC)

Take a closer look at the full list of the best performing technology dividend stocks. The average P/E ratio amounts to 16.60 and forward P/E ratio is 15.47. The dividend yield has a value of 3.34 percent. Price to book ratio is 2.91 and price to sales ratio 1.81. The operating margin amounts to 12.35 percent and the beta ratio is 1.51. Stocks from the list have an average debt to equity ratio of 0.50.

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

Best Performing Technology Dividend Stocks (Click to enlarge)

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