The Best Performing Technology Dividend Stocks

 | Jul 04, 2013 06:58AM ET

The 20 most successful technology companies with the best performing dividend stocks have realized a performance between 192.46 percent and 48.71 percent. There is money to be made but the risk is very high. Most of the results are small Caps with a market capitalization below USD 1 billion. The average capital gain was 79.15 percent. Despite the strong stock price hike, eleven of them still have a buy or better rating.

Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) has a market capitalization of $48.56 billion. The company employs 331,800 people, generates revenue of $120.357 billion and has a net income of $-12.650 billion. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $14.456 billion. The EBITDA margin is 12.01 percent (the operating margin is -9.19 percent and the net profit margin -10.51 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 26.14 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 126.74 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of -41.43 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $-6.80. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.50 in the form of dividends to shareholders. Forward P/E: 6.87.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is not calculable, the P/S ratio is 0.40 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.20. The dividend yield amounts to 2.31 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 1.19.