The Best Dividend Contenders By Free Cash Flow

Dividend Contenders are stocks with a consecutive dividend growth of more than 10 years but less than 25. Exactly 175 companies have currently fulfilled this dividend growth criterion. In order to find the cheapest stocks by real income figures, I screened all contenders by a cheap price to free cash flow ratio of less than 15. Ten stocks remained of which three have a yield over three percent.

Best Buy (NYSE:BBY) has a market capitalization of $6.75 billion. The company employs 167,000 people, generates revenue of $50,705.00 million and has a net income of $334.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,043.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 4.03 percent (operating margin 2.14 percent and net profit margin 0.66 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 13.80 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 58.96 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of -20.43 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $-3.08. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.62 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is not calculable, P/S ratio 0.13 and P/B ratio 1.81. Dividend Yield: 3.42 percent. The beta ratio is 1.31 and the P/FCF ratio 4.03.






General Dynamics (NYSE:GD) has a market capitalization of $22.55 billion. The company employs 93,500 people, generates revenue of $32,677.00 million and has a net income of $2,552.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,418.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 13.52 percent (operating margin 11.71 percent and net profit margin 7.81 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 11.27 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 29.70 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 19.23 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $6.85. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.88 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 9.33, P/S ratio 0.69 and P/B ratio 1.72. Dividend Yield: 3.19 percent. The beta ratio is 1.25 and the P/FCF ratio 10.43.






ACE Limited (NYSE:ACE) has a market capitalization of $24.86 billion. The company employs 16,500 people, generates revenue of $16,834.00 million and has a net income of $1,585.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $4,861.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 28.88 percent (operating margin 12.68 percent and net profit margin 9.42 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 5.62 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 20.07 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 6.68 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.90. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.38 in form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.43, P/S ratio 1.48 and P/B ratio 1.01. Dividend Yield: 2.67 percent. The beta ratio is 0.73 and the P/FCF ratio 11.12.






Take a closer look at the full table of cheap Dividend Contenders By P/FCF. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 12.81 and forward P/E ratio is 10.61. The dividend yield has a value of 2.78 percent. Price to book ratio is 1.80 and price to sales ratio 0.93. The operating margin amounts to 12.46 percent and the beta ratio is 0.89.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

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