20 Of The Best Dividend Paying Technology Stocks

Best Dividend Paying Technology Stocks Researched By “long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. The technology sector is a great investment field with fantastic growth potential. The whole sector has a total market capitalization of USD 120.21 trillion and summarizes 881 companies. The average dividend yield amounts to 2.85 percent and the P/E ratio is 17.55.

In order to find the best dividend paying stocks within the sector, I screened all companies with a positive dividend yield, great earnings per share growth of more than ten percent and an operating margin over 20 percent. In order get the best results in terms of low debt and high cash, the debt to equity ratio should be under 0.3. Twenty technology companies remained of which six yielding over three percent and thirteen are currently recommended to buy.

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Cheap Large Capitalized Stocks At New One-Year Highs Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Companies with a well running businesses and brightening perspectives have normally a strong demand and their share price tends to one-year-highs. As of today, the central banks are flooding the markets with cheap money and many stocks have shown a wonderful performance over the recent months due to the capital injections. 

I screened the stock market by large capitalized stocks with a yield over three percent that are still buyable in terms of price-to-earnings (P/E ratio below 20). Finally, the stock should have crossed new highs. Thirteen companies remained of which eight are recommended to buy.

14 High Profitable Technology Stocks With A Yield Over 3%

Technology Dividend Stocks With High Return On Investments And Big Operating Margins Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Technology stocks are characterized by high growth, high margins and low dividends. They normally pay low dividends because they want to finance new technologies with high growth potential. Many of the big IT companies serve billions of cash but they don’t know where to invest it.

I screened the technology sector by the most profitable stocks (stocks with an operating margin and return on investment over 20 percent) with a dividend yield over 3 percent. Exactly fourteen companies fulfilled these criteria. Most of the results come from the semiconductor or communication industry. Four stocks have a double digit yield and five are recommended to buy or they have a strong buy rating.

Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of March 2012

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is 2012-03-01. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield:

Market capitalization: > 1 Billion
Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100

Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20

Return on investment: > 10 < 100

Operating Margin: > 10 < 100

10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200

10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

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Best Dividend Paying Stock List As Of February 2012

Best Dividend Paying Stocks Lists By Dividend Yield – Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded at AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 as well as Nasdaq Composite. Date of the screen is 2012-02-01. The list is selected by the following criteria’s and sorted by dividend yield:

14 Technology Dividend Stocks With Buy Or Better Rating

Technology Stocks With Buy Or Better Recommendation Researched by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current overview of large capitalized stocks (more than USD 10 billion market capitalization) with a dividend yield of more than 3 percent as well as a buy or better recommendation from brokerage firms. 14 tech companies fulfilled these criteria of which 11 have a buy rating and 3 a strong buy recommendation. Two shares have a double digit yield. Half of the stocks come from the telecom services industry.

Here are the 3 top dividend stocks sorted by yield:

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France Telecom (NYSE: FTE) has a market capitalization of $39.74 billion. The company employs 165,330 people, generates revenues of $57,880.07 million and has a net income of $4,842.53 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $17,855.14 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 30.85 percent (operating margin 16.62 percent and the net profit margin finally 8.37 percent).


The total debt representing 41.03 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 132.93 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 13.62 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.48. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.78 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.17, Price/Sales 0.69 and Price/Book ratio 1.07. Dividend Yield: 12.93 percent. The beta ratio is 0.81.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of France Telecom SA (ADR) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from France Telecom SA (ADR) (NYSE: FTE) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of France Telecom SA (ADR) (NYSE: FTE) (Click to enlarge)

Telefonica (NYSE: TEF) has a market capitalization of $75.67 billion. The company employs 35,466 people, generates revenues of $77,257.81 million and has a net income of $12,811.64 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $32,788.49 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 42.44 percent (operating margin 27.12 percent and the net profit margin finally 16.58 percent).


The total debt representing 47.08 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 249.88 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 44.03 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.45. Last fiscal year, the company paid $4.96 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 4.81, Price/Sales 0.98 and Price/Book ratio 0.80. Dividend Yield: 12.83 percent. The beta ratio is 0.99.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Telefonica S.A. (ADR) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from Telefonica S.A. (ADR) (NYSE: TEF) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Telefonica S.A. (ADR) (NYSE: TEF) (Click to enlarge)

Telecom Italia (NYSE: TI) has a market capitalization of $19.86 billion. The company employs 85,126 people, generates revenues of $35,394.83 million and has a net income of $4,552.51 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $14,427.09 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 40.76 percent (operating margin 20.86 percent and the net profit margin finally 12.86 percent).


The total debt representing 43.36 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 134.10 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 11.42 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.04. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.74 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 237.05, Price/Sales 0.55 and Price/Book ratio 0.54. Dividend Yield: 8.19 percent. The beta ratio is 0.97.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Telecom Italia S.p.A. ... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term History of Dividends from Telecom Italia S.p.A. ... (NYSE: TI) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Telecom Italia S.p.A. ... (NYSE: TI) (Click to enlarge)

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

14 Technology Dividend Stocks With Buy Or Better Rating (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.61 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 9.78. The dividend yield has a value of 6.13 percent. Price to book ratio is 2.67 and price to sales ratio 1.57. The operating margin amounts to 19.41 percent.

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