13 of the Cheapest Dividend Achievers

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Jun 29, 2012
Dividend Achievers With Cheap Price Ratios Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Dividend Achievers are stocks that have raised their distributions to shareholders via dividends over a period of 10 consecutive years. 186 listed companies or 2.8 percent of the available stocks have such an impressive dividend growth history. But to own wonderful growth stocks with a high reliability of dividend payments does not guarantee a high final total return. You need to look at stocks with cheap price ratios.


In order to find the cheapest Dividend Achievers, I screened the investment category by companies with a P/S ratio of less than one, a P/B ratio lower than two and finally a current P/E ratio below 15. Thirteen companies remained of which six are recommended by investment firms.


Here are my favorite stocks:


ConocoPhillips (COP, Financial) has a market capitalization of $68.96 billion. The company employs 29,700 people, generates revenues of $251,226.00 million and has a net income of $12,502.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $31,891.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 12.69 percent (operating margin 9.16 percent and the net profit margin finally 4.98 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 14.76 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 34.69 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 18.59 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $9.15. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.64 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company raised dividends over 12 consecutive years.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 5.96, P/S ratio 0.27 and P/B ratio 1.07. Dividend Yield: 4.85 percent. The beta ratio is 1.13.


AFLAC Incorporated (AFL, Financial) has a market capitalization of $19.17 billion. The company employs 8,562 people, generates revenues of $22,171.00 million and has a net income of $1,964.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $6,761.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 30.49 percent (operating margin 13.50 percent and the net profit margin finally 8.86 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 2.81 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 24.32 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 15.99 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.03. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.23 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company raised dividends over 29 consecutive years.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 8.15, P/S ratio 0.86 and P/B ratio 1.41. Dividend Yield: 3.24 percent. The beta ratio is 1.83.


Archer Daniels Midland (ADM, Financial) has a market capitalization of $19.19 billion. The company employs 30,000 people, generates revenues of $80,676.00 million and has a net income of $2,018.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,651.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 4.53 percent (operating margin 3.74 percent and the net profit margin finally 2.50 percent).


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 24.46 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 54.86 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 12.19 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.99. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.62 in form of dividends to shareholders. The company raised dividends over 36 consecutive years.


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.65, P/S ratio 0.24 and P/B ratio 1.04. Dividend Yield: 2.42 percent. The beta ratio is 0.45.


Take a closer look at the full table of the cheapest Dividend Achievers. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 9.45 and forward P/E ratio is 9.68. The dividend yield has a value of 3.02 percent. Price to book ratio is 1.34 and price to sales ratio 0.56. The operating margin amounts to 10.46 percent and the beta ratio is 1.18.


Related stock ticker symbols:

MCY, COP, WAG, CVX, GD, AFL, SFG, ADM, TDS, MUR, PH, NC, MATW


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