The Best Dividend Paying Restaurant Stocks

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Feb 18, 2012
The Highest Yielding Stocks From The Restaurants Industry Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Food store concepts like restaurants are interesting growth opportunities. If they also pay good dividends and they are well diversified, they should be a part of everybody's portfolio. I analyzed the restaurants industry by the best yielding operator. Exactly fifty companies from the industry are listed of which sixteen pay dividends. The average industry yield amounts to 2.4 percent; price to earnings ratio is 21.4.



Here are my favorite stocks:

Darden Restaurants (DRI, Financial) has a market capitalization of $6.54 billion. The company employs 180,000 people, generates revenues of $7,500.20 million and has a net income of $478.70 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $1,057.60 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 14.10 percent (operating margin 8.63 percent and the net profit margin finally 6.38 percent).

The total debt representing 30.16 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 85.16 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 25.00 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.26. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.28 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.61, Price/Sales 0.87 and Price/Book ratio 3.51. Dividend Yield: 3.40 percent. The beta ratio is 0.89.

McDonald's Corporation (MCD, Financial) has a market capitalization of $102.31 billion. The company employs 400,000 people, generates revenues of $27,006.00 million and has a net income of $5,503.10 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $8,351.70 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 30.93 percent (operating margin 31.58 percent and the net profit margin finally 20.38 percent).

Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.27. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.53 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 18.97, Price/Sales 3.76 and Price/Book ratio 7.67. Dividend Yield: 2.82 percent. The beta ratio is 0.44.

Yum! Brands (YUM) has a market capitalization of $30.02 billion. The company employs 52,920 people, generates revenues of $12,626.00 million and has a net income of $1,335.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,443.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 19.35 percent (operating margin 14.38 percent and the net profit margin finally 10.57 percent).

The total debt representing 37.55 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 181.95 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 77.61 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.74. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.07 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 23.83, Price/Sales 2.36 and Price/Book ratio 16.33. Dividend Yield: 1.76 percent. The beta ratio is 0.94.

Take a closer look at the full table of the best yielding restaurant stocks. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 22.34 and forward P/E ratio is 17.69. The dividend yield has a value of 1.89 percent. Price to book ratio is 4.62 and price to sales ratio 1.07. The operating margin amounts to 9.66 percent.

Related stock ticker symbols:

ARKR, BAGL, DRI, MCD, FRS, PFCB, BOBE, CEC, EAT, TXRH, CBRL, YUM, WEN, THI, ARCO, BNHN

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