3 Cash-Rich Stocks Ready to Start Paying Dividends
0.00%September 09 | MyPlanIQ portfolio symbol P_37040
We continue to look for interesting dividend stocks that can help offset
the significantly reduced income from fixed income instruments. Lisa
Springer from Street Authority speculates about companies who are not
paying dividends today but may be on the brink of making that change.
She commented: "If dividend stocks continue to outperform, then it's
likely more companies will start paying dividends. Additional incentives
come from retiring baby boomers, who will most likely switch to
income-generating investments rather than riskier growth stocks. Given
this rosy outlook for dividend stocks, there are many companies not
paying dividends now that will possibly ponder commencing payments
soon."
We have already stated that companies may pay dividends to boost
interest in the company and it could be a danger sign. However, Lisa
screened for those that were fundamentally strong and initiating
dividends is not a sign of desperation.
Her filter was:
- Companies that have good earnings, abundant cash, strong cash flow and little long-term debt
- Companies trading at low price-to-earnings (P/E) and price-to-cash flow (P/CF) ratios
From that filter she picked her top three
- Tech Data Corp. (TECD) a giant distributor of IT products.
- $24 billion sales (12% increase)
- EPS improved 22% to $3.37
- $900 million of cash. T
- Long-term debt $61 million
- Trades at just 10 times its forward earnings.
- Western Digital Corp. (WDC) Hard drive manufacturer
- Averaged 17% sales growth and 12% earnings growth in the past five years
- $3.9 billion in cash
- $231 million of debt
- Trades at only seven times cash flow
- EMC Corp. (EMC) Data storage and information security
- $20 billion in revenue (18% increase)
- Earnings increased 24% to $3.4 billion
- $6.3 billion of cash
- $3.4 billion of debt
- Trades for 14 times cash flow
Well these are strong companies in the IT sector so we have a double
problem of a small number in a single market so there will be volatility
but worth measuring to see whether these are companies to consider
adding to a long term portfolio -- whether or not they add dividends. We
will compare it with our broadly diversified dividend bearing ETF
portfolio.