Dividend growth stocks need to hike dividends each year in order to keep their status as dividend grower in the investor community.
Let us take a look ahead to companies that are expected to announce dividend increases in December 2014.
There are only a few weeks to close the trading book for the full year. Maybe we can find there some great expectations.
#1 AT&T (NYSE:T) has a market capitalization of $176.33 billion. The company employs 247,700 people, generates revenue of $128.752 billion and has a net income of $18.553 billion.
AT&T's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amount to $48.873 billion. The EBITDA margin is 37.96 percent (the operating margin is 23.67 percent and the net profit margin 14.41 percent).
Financials: The total debt represents 26.92 percent of AT&T's assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 82.20 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 19.91 percent was realized by AT&T.
Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.26. Last fiscal year, AT&T paid $1.80 in the form of dividends to shareholders.
Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.41, the P/S ratio is 1.38 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.97. The dividend yield amounts to 5.37 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.40. - Check out the rest of the results here: 6 Stocks Giving Investors Potential Dividend Hikes In December...