Stocks Picks: Dividend Yields Over 3%, A Predictable Business Model

 | Sep 10, 2013 05:38AM ET

On my blog, I often discuss companies with a low volatile business and good yields. Today I would like to use the gurufocus screener to focus on predictable companies.

The screener gave me the opportunity to look for new, customized stock ideas. Below is a list of the best yielding cheaply valuated stocks with yields over 3 percent as well as a forward P/E under 15.

Eighteen stocks with a better than 4-Star gurufocus rating fulfilled the above mentioned criteria. Three of the results have a high yield and four are currently recommended to buy or even better.

Novartis (NVS) has a market capitalization of $185.42 billion. The company employs 127,724 people, generates revenue of $57.561 billion and has a net income of $9.618 billion. Novartis’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $16.848 billion. The EBITDA margin is 29.27 percent (the operating margin is 20.00 percent and the net profit margin 16.71 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 15.88 percent of Novartis’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 28.55 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 14.09 percent was realized by Novartis. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.81. Last fiscal year, Novartis paid $2.30 in the form of dividends to shareholders. Forward P/E: 14.13.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 19.87, the P/S ratio is 3.54 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.66. The dividend yield amounts to 3.20 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.62.