25 Dividend Stocks With Interesting Performance, Valuation Figures

 | Jun 02, 2013 05:31AM ET

I’ve created a quick dividend list (from low-yield to high-yield paying stocks) of stocks with interesting performance and valuation figures. Stocks from that list are mid- and large caps (market capitalization of more than USD 1 billion) with double-digit long-term earnings growth rates. The companies are traded on the AMEX, NYSE, NASDAQ and part of the Dow Jones, S&P 500 or Nasdaq Composite. The list is selected by the following criteria and sorted by dividend yield.

Market Capitalization: > 1 Billion
Price/Earnings Ratio: > 0 < 100
Dividend Yield: > 3 < 20
Return on Investment: > 10 < 100
Operating Margin: > 10 < 100
10 Year Revenue Growth: > 8 < 200
10 Year EPS Growth: > 10 < 100

This time, only 25 companies fulfilled the above mentioned criteria. Eight of the results are High-Yields and seventeen got a buy or better rating from brokerage analysts.

Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (ABV) has a market capitalization of $119.23 billion. The company employs 51,299 people, generates revenue of $15.278 billion and has a net income of $5.045 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $7.389 billion. The EBITDA margin is 48.36 percent (the operating margin is 43.00 percent and the net profit margin 33.02 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 5.80 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 10.89 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 38.58 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.59. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.36 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 23.93, the P/S ratio is 8.12 and the P/B ratio is finally 9.01. The dividend yield amounts to 3.41 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.96.