High Yield Stocks With Ex-Dividend Dates During June 2012

 | May 31, 2012 04:11AM ET

High yield investing is popular especially just before the next dividend payout. In order to receive the next dividend, investors must take a look at the ex-dividend date. If you own a share or fund before this day, you will receive the next dividend. I screened interesting high yield stocks going ex-dividend within the next month – June 2012. As result, we found 85 stocks with an average dividend yield of 6.52 percent.

CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL) has a market capitalization of $24.38 billion. The company employs 47,900 people, generates revenues of $15,351.00 million and has a net income of $573.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $6,029.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 39.27 percent (operating margin 13.05 percent and the net profit margin finally 3.73 percent). 

Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 38.90 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 104.84 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 3.76 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.96. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.90 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 40.87, P/S ratio 1.59 and P/B ratio 1.17. Dividend Yield: 7.37 percent. The beta ratio is 0.70.