What is there to look for in a dividend stock? It’s important to remember that past dividends are not guarantees of payments in the future – if you want to be able to rely on a company’s dividend for an extended period of time, make sure the company can support it through its profitability or sources of liquidity. The current ratio, or current assets divided by current liabilities, is a popular gauge for a company’s liquidity, with ratios above 3 considered healthy.
Another consideration, as with any stock, is whether it is fairly priced. One idea is to consider a company’s ratio of levered free cash flow/enterprise value, with higher ratios indicating the possibility that the stock is undervalued. Levered free cash flow is the free cash flow after deducting interest payments on outstanding debt. Enterprise value is the sum of the firm’s value from all ownership sources: market cap, outstanding debt, and preferred shares.
Source: Kapitall
Related Articles:
- These 11 Dividend Stocks Could Make You Wealthy
- 13 Dividend Stocks Headed In The Right Direction
- 12 Industrial Strength Dividend Stocks
- 10 Financial Services Dividend Stocks To Boost Your Yield
- Building Yield: 15 Consumer Goods Dividend Stocks
_____________________________________________________________________
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts Last 30 Days
-
Do you need more income? Join the crowd. It seems everyone is scouring the landscape these days for decent income investments to beef up the...
-
There are some dividend aristocrats which have not only maintained but increased their dividends for over half a century. Having survived ev...
-
In bull markets, dividends become more or less irrelevant. When the Dow Jones Industrial Average traded above 14,000 in 2007, very few stoc...
-
While I've invested a decent portion of my portfolio into growth stocks, a significant part of my holdings consists of dividend-paying s...
-
All too often when a cheap stock offers a high dividend yield, it's too good to be true. Perhaps the stock has plunged with good reason,...
-
Investors hear about dividend aristocrats all the time. It’s a fantastic thing if a company raises its dividend every year for 25 years runn...
-
Stocks can make for amazing investments, offering better long-term returns than bonds, precious metals, and most other commonly available in...
-
Anxiety over the European debt crisis and distrust in the markets drove volatility in global stock markets to dizzying heights in 2011. The ...
-
If it's dividends you're after, there are plenty of top companies to consider, particularly those on the Dow Jones Industrial Averag...
-
To alert investors of stocks that have the highest risk of reducing their current dividend in the future, Simply Safe Dividends created a Di...
0 comments
Post a Comment
Post a Comment