11 Cheap, High-Beta Consumer Goods Dividend Stocks

 | Aug 16, 2013 07:27AM ET

Today I'm screening for large cap, high-beta, consumer dividend stocks with a low forward P/E and a beta ratio above one.

My screen produced only eleven results with yields between 0.71 percent and 2.58 percent. Nearly all of them (10 stocks) have a current buy or better rating by brokerage firms.

Koninklijke Philips Electronics (PHG) has a market capitalization of $29.40 billion. The company employs 115,281 people, generates revenue of $32.856 billion and has a net income of $630.94 million. Koninklijke Philips Electronics’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $3,967.23 million. The EBITDA margin is 12.07 percent (the operating margin is 4.16 percent and the net profit margin 1.92 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 15.59 percent of Koninklijke Philips Electronics’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 40.70 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 2.19 percent was realized by Koninklijke Philips Electronics. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.42. Last fiscal year, Koninklijke Philips Electronics paid $0.99 in the form of dividends to shareholders. Forward P/E: 13.26.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 76.84, the P/S ratio is 0.96 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.00. The dividend yield amounts to 3.02 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.47.