8 Large Capitalized High Yield Stocks Below Book Value

 | Apr 11, 2012 06:32AM ET

High yield stocks, companies with a dividend yield of more than five percent, are often an attractive investment class especially in times of low short-term interest rates. 927 stocks with a yield over five percent are available at the market. In order to find some opportunities, I screened the investment category by stocks with a P/B ratio below one and a market capitalization of more than USD 10 billion. If you buy a stock below the book value, you get for a dollar of your cash more than a dollar in assets.

Eight companies remained of which four have a double-digit yield. Four stocks are recommended to buy and two have a strong buy rating. All of the results are from the financial and telecom sector.

Telefonica (NYSE:TEF) has a market capitalization of $22.90 billion. The company employs 291,027 people, generates revenues of $82,316.34 million and has a net income of $8,104.96 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $26,475.06 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 32.16 percent (operating margin 16.02 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.85 percent).

Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 51.16 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 306.48 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.45 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.71. Last fiscal year, the company paid $6.29 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 3.19, P/S ratio 0.87 and P/B ratio 0.82. Dividend Yield: 13.73 percent. The beta ratio is 0.97.