Service Sector Dividend Stocks
Dividend Yield | Oct 12, 2012 10:50AM ET
Service is good. A wealthy economy has a highly developed consumer-based economy with a large service sector. In America, 897 companies with a stock market listing are available for investors. They all together have a market capitalization of USD $53.37 trillion. The average P/E-ratio within the sector amounts to 19.94 and the dividend yield has a value of 1.81%.
I made a graphic of the 20 biggest stocks from the services sector with positive dividend payments. Below the biggest dividend payers from the services sector . The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 21.65 and forward P/E ratio is 15.80. The dividend yield has a value of 1.74%. Price to book ratio is 4.88 and price to sales ratio 2.59. The operating margin amounts to 17.04% and the beta ratio is 1.05. The average stock has a debt to equity ratio of 0.61.
Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM)
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