During the past Week, 64 companies increased their dividend payments. The biggest stocks are AbbVie (ABBV, Financial), Visa (V), Halliburton (HAL), Energy Transfer Equity (ETE) and the apparel company V.F. Corporation (VFC, Financial).
Four stocks from the dividend growers list have a forward P/E of less than 10 and eleven have a dividend yield over 5 percent. Below are my five favorites. You might agree or not.
Most of them are different and they don't look like real Dividend Aristocrats or Dividend Champions as in the past articles.
My focus for this selection was mainly on Large Cap. I personally have no shares of them and don't plan to buy some in the near future, but it's always good to know which companies have hiked dividends because in five years or so, they could become a new Dividend Challenger.
Big names on the Buyback side were Pfizer (PFE, Financial), AbbVie, Canadian National Railway (CNI, Financial), Parker Hannfin (PH, Financial), Nielsen (NLSN) and CarMax (KMX, Financial).
In total, 27 stocks announced a new, additional or increased share buyback program. The total buyback volume for the future is over USD $25 billion.
#1 Seagate Technology (NASDAQ:STX) has a market capitalization of $18.43 billion. The company employs 52,100 people, generates revenue of $13.724 billion and has a net income of $1.570 billion.
Seagate Technology's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amount to $2.679 billion. The EBITDA margin is 19.52 percent (the operating margin is 12.94 percent and the net profit margin 11.44 percent).
Financials: The total debt represents 41.30 percent of Seagate Technology's assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 138.42 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 49.63 percent was realized by Seagate Technology.
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.52. Last fiscal year, Seagate Technology paid $1.67 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.91, the P/S ratio is 1.34 and the P/B ratio is finally 6.52. The dividend yield amounts to 3.82 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 2.47. See #2 - #5 here: My 5 Favorite Stocks With Dividend Growth Of The Week
