Safety comes first; that's also one of my rules when I started to invest money in the stock market. I believe that it gives you a solid return to avoid the big risks because each loss you don't need is also a gain you don't need to catch by taking higher risks.
Growth is just as important. Investors in or near requirement should demand their investments grow dividend income at least as fast as inflation –Â and hopefully much faster. This gives you a boost in your standard of living each year.
Today I like to introduce 4 stocks with a large dividend growth history (more than 30 years that give investors a solid ground to invest.
Each of these businesses also has maintained a growth rate higher than the inflation rate for the last several years and has a dividend yield 3% or higher. These high-yield stocks should provide income now and growth for future income.
They all have exceptionally low stock price standard deviations. These businesses also have strong competitive advantages that insulate them from the worst effects of recessions. In short, these are 4 high quality businesses that score high marks for safety.
These are the results:
Southern Company –Â Yield: 4.96%
#1 Southern Company (NYSE:SO) employs 26,369 people, generates revenue of $18,467.00 million and has a net income of $2,031.00 million. The current market capitalization stands at $39.71 billion.
Southern Company’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $5,234.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 28.34% (the operating margin is 19.72% and the net profit margin 11.00%).
Financials: The total debt represents 35.22% of Southern Company assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 118.49%. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 10.08% was realized by Southern Company.
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.34. Last fiscal year, Southern Company paid $2.08 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 18.64, the P/S ratio is 2.15 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.99. The dividend yield amounts to 4.96%. - Read more here: 4 Safe High-Yielding Stocks To Consider...
