This helps explain how over the past decade, the Global Healthcare Sector has outperformed the benchmark S&P 500 by more than 20%.
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The first thing that comes to mind, when determining whether a stock is overvalued or not, is its price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple. We hereby shortlist healthcare stocks with forward P/E ratio trading below 15x. Standard criterion holds that, anything under 15x will be dirt cheap.
Because of the high market valuation, we can say today that high-quality dividend stocks with a P/E under 20 are cheap, compared to bond yields.
Attached you will get a list of the cheapest healthcare dividend stocks by forward P/E. I've excluded all stocks with a market capitalization under 2 billion. Each of the results has a forward P/E under 15 which corresponds with an earnings yield over 6.6%.
These are the 20 cheapest healthcare dividend stocks....
