The Best Dividend Contenders By Free Cash Flow

Best Dividend Contenders With Cheapest Free Cash flow ratios Stocks Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Contenders are stocks with a consecutive dividend growth of more than 10 years but less than 25. Exactly 175 companies have currently fulfilled this dividend growth criterion. In order to find the cheapest stocks by real income figures, I screened all contenders by a cheap price to free cash flow ratio of less than 15. Ten stocks remained of which three have a yield over three percent.

9 Dow Jones Stocks With Cheap P/FCF Ratios

Dow Jones Industrial Stocks With Cheap Price To Free Cash Flow Ratios by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current table of stocks from the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index with a price to free cash flow ratio of less than 15. Exactly 9 companies from the index fulfilled these criteria of which 4 yielding above 3 percent.

Here are the 3 top dividend stocks by dividend yield:

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Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) has a market capitalization of $152.89 billion. The company employs 110,600 people, generates revenues of $67,809.00 million and has a net income of $8,298.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $19,306.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 28.47 percent (operating margin 13.89 percent and the net profit margin finally 12.24 percent).

The total debt representing 22.58 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 50.14 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 9.30 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounts to $1.27 of which $0.72 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders last fiscal.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.66, Price/Sales 2.27 and Price/Book ratio 1.83. Dividend Yield: 3.99 percent. The beta ratio is 0.73.

Long-Term Stock Chart Of Pfizer Inc. (Click to enlarge)

General Electric Company (NYSE:GE) has a market capitalization of $169.87 billion. The company employs 300,000 people, generates revenues of $150,211.00 million and has a net income of $13,158.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $24,221.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 16.12 percent (operating margin 9.46 percent and the net profit margin finally 8.76 percent).


The total debt representing 63.72 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 402.43 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 10.43 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounts to $1.22 of which $0.46 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders last fiscal.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 13.21, Price/Sales 1.12 and Price/Book ratio 1.42. Dividend Yield: 3.77 percent. The beta ratio is 1.60.

Long-Term Stock Chart Of General Electric Company (Click to enlarge)

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has a market capitalization of $212.16 billion. The company employs 90,000 people, generates revenues of $69,943.00 million and has a net income of $23,150.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $29,927.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 42.79 percent (operating margin 38.83 percent and the net profit margin finally 33.10 percent).


The total debt representing 10.97 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 20.88 percent. Due to the financial situation, the return on equity amounts to 44.84 percent. Finally, earnings per share amounts to $2.75 of which $0.64 were paid in form of dividends to shareholders last fiscal.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.16, Price/Sales 3.04 and Price/Book ratio 3.71. Dividend Yield: 3.16 percent. The beta ratio is 0.99.

Long-Term Stock Chart Of Microsoft Corporation (Click to enlarge)

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

9 Dow Jones Stocks With Cheap P/FCF Ratios (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.46 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 8.83. The dividend yield has a value of 2.26 percent. Price to book ratio is 1.68 and price to sales ratio 1.44. The operating margin amounts to 13.36 percent. Earnings per share are expected to grow by 12.41 yearly for the next 5 years. The average P/Free Cash Flow Ratio is under 10.

Related stock ticker symbols:

PFE, GE, MSFT, TRV, HPQ, AXP, CSCO, AA, BAC

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Stocks With Fast Dividend And Free Cash Flow Growth

6 Stocks Seeing Rapid Growth in Dividends and Free Cash Flows By Kapitall. Cash flow analysis is very important when considering a stock for its dividends. Because free cash flow is the first and most sustainable source for dividend payments, healthy cash flows indicate that a company’s dividend is more sustainable.

We ran a screen with this idea in mind, searching for dividend stocks that have seen fast growth in free operating cash flows over the last five years (measured with compound annual growth rate). We then screened for stocks seeing high growth in their dividend, comparing the current year dividend per share estimate to the trailing-twelve-month dividend per share.

Here are the results:


1. CNOOC Ltd. (CEO)
Dividend yield at 2.11%


2. International Paper Co. (IP)
Dividend yield at 2.43%


3. KKR Financial Holdings LLC (KFN)
Dividend yield at 6.85%


4. MKS Instruments Inc. (MKSI)
Dividend yield at 2.22%


5. El Paso Electric Co. (EE)
Dividend yield at 2.67%


6. First Commonwealth Financial Corp. (FCF)
Dividend yield at 2.26%

Related Stock Ticker:
CEO, IP, KFN, MKSI, EE, FCF

Source: Seeking Alpha

10 Dividend Stocks With Fast Cash Flow Growth

One of the most important considerations in choosing a source of dividend income is whether a company can continue to support their dividend with healthy cash flows. If cash-flow trends aren’t encouraging, the company may have trouble maintaining their dividend yield.

With this idea in mind, we screened dividend stocks paying at least 2% dividend yields for those exhibiting positive cash-flow trends. Using the ratio of free operating cash flow/revenue, we screened for companies with a trailing-twelve-month ratio at least 25% larger than their five-year average.

Here are the results of 10 dividend stocks with fastest cash flow growth and dividend yield figures:

1. F.N.B. Corporation (FNB)
Dividend yield at 4.55%

2. Tower Bancorp Inc. (TOBC)
Dividend yield at 4.09%

3. BancorpSouth, Inc. (BXS)
Dividend yield at 3.61%

4. Aircastle LTD (AYR)
Dividend yield at 3.21%

5. Intersections Inc. (INTX)
Dividend yield at 3.01%

6. Republic Bancorp Inc. (RBCAA)
Dividend yield at 2.74%

7. BB & T Corp. (BBT)
Dividend yield at 2.40%

8. Union First Market Bankshares Corporation (UBSH)
Dividend yield at 2.27%

9. Montpelier Re Holdings Ltd. (MRH)
Dividend yield at 2.24%

10. First Commonwealth Financial Corp. (FCF)
Dividend yield at 2.08%

Related Stock Ticker:
FCF, MRH, UBSH, BBT, RBCAA, INTX, AYR, BXS, TOBC, FNB

Source: Seeking Alpha