Buying dividend stocks and holding them for long periods of time can be a great way to generate income from your portfolio or help build a position over years through dividend reinvestment.
For this to be effective, though, investors need to find stocks of quality companies that are going to crank out dividends at a decent rate quarter after quarter.
A solid ground to start your research is the dividend Achievers list. Those stocks managed to raise dividends each year for more than 10 years in a row.
In total, there are 333 stocks with such an impressive dividend growth history.
Today I want to select only those that might look really interesting in terms of price to growth.
I selected those stocks with double-digit expected earnings per share growth while the forward P/E is still less than 15 and an acceptable debt burden weights on the balance sheet.
Only 15 stocks fulfilled these criteria. You find the full list at the end of this article.
Here are the top yielding stocks in detail...
QUALCOMM -- Yield: 4.03%
QUALCOMM (NASDAQ:QCOM) employs 33,000 people, generates revenue of $25,281.00 million and has a net income of $5,268.00 million. The current market capitalization stands at $78.78 billion.QUALCOMM’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $7,350.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 29.07% (the operating margin is 22.12% and the net profit margin 20.84%).
Financials: The total debt represents 21.59% of QUALCOMM assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 34.91%. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 14.93% was realized by QUALCOMM.
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.17. Last fiscal year, QUALCOMM paid $1.80 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 16.62, the P/S ratio is 3.06 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.55. The dividend yield amounts to 4.03%.
Stock Charts:
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| Long-Term Stock Price Chart of QUALCOMM (QCOM) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Payment History of QUALCOMM (QCOM) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of QUALCOMM (QCOM) |
Target Corporation -- Yield: 2.72%
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) employs 341,000 people, generates revenue of $73,785.00 million and has a net income of $3,321.00 million. The current market capitalization stands at $49.15 billion.Target Corporation’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $7,124.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 9.66% (the operating margin is 7.49% and the net profit margin 4.50%).
Financials: The total debt represents 31.69% of Target Corporation assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 98.48%. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 24.64% was realized by Target Corporation.
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.28. Last fiscal year, Target Corporation paid $2.20 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.60, the P/S ratio is 0.67 and the P/B ratio is finally 3.83. The dividend yield amounts to 2.72%.
Stock Charts:
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| Long-Term Stock Price Chart of Target Corporation (TGT) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Target Corporation (TGT) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Target Corporation (TGT) |
Bunge -- Yield: 2.54%
Bunge (NYSE:BG) employs 33,000 people, generates revenue of $43,455.00 million and has a net income of $755.00 million. The current market capitalization stands at $8.45 billion.Bunge’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,803.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 4.15% (the operating margin is 2.87% and the net profit margin 1.74%).
Financials: The total debt represents 26.65% of Bunge assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 74.15%. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 10.41% was realized by Bunge.
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.64. Last fiscal year, Bunge paid $1.48 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.90, the P/S ratio is 0.19 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.48. The dividend yield amounts to 2.54%.
Stock Charts:
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| Long-Term Stock Price Chart of Bunge (BG) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Payment History of Bunge (BG) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Bunge (BG) |
BancFirst Corporation -- Yield: 2.34%
BancFirst Corporation (NASDAQ:BANF) employs 1,744 people, generates revenue of $201.04 million and has a net income of $66.17 million. The current market capitalization stands at $998.02 million.BancFirst Corporation’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $115.11 million. The EBITDA margin is 39.07% (the operating margin is 34.36% and the net profit margin 22.46%).
Financials: The total debt represents 0.48% of BancFirst Corporation assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 4.95%. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 10.46% was realized by BancFirst Corporation.
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.17. Last fiscal year, BancFirst Corporation 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 14.75, the P/S ratio is 3.24 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.46. The dividend yield amounts to 2.34%.
Stock Charts:
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| Long-Term Stock Price Chart of BancFirst Corporation (BANF) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Payment History of BancFirst Corporation (BANF) |
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| Long-Term Dividend Yield History of BancFirst Corporation (BANF) |
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| 15 Fairly Priced Growth Orientated Dividend Achievers (click to enlarge) |
