(VIANEWS) – MetLife (MET), Wausau Pape (WPP), NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NEP) are the highest payout ratio stocks on this list.
We have collected information regarding stocks with the highest payout ratio as yet. The payout ratio in itself isn’t a guarantee of good investment but it’s an indicator of whether dividends are being paid and how the company chooses to distribute them.
When investigating a potential investment, the dividend payout ratio is a good statistic to know so here are a few stocks with an above 30% percent payout ratio.
1. MetLife (MET)
68.04% Payout Ratio
MetLife, Inc., a financial services company, provides insurance, annuities, employee benefits, and asset management services worldwide. It operates through five segments: U.S.; Asia; Latin America; Europe, the Middle East and Africa; and MetLife Holdings. The company offers life, dental, group short-and long-term disability, individual disability, pet insurance, accidental death and dismemberment, vision, and accident and health coverages, as well as prepaid legal plans; administrative services-only arrangements to employers; and general and separate account, and synthetic guaranteed interest contracts, as well as private floating rate funding agreements. It also provides pension risk transfers, institutional income annuities, structured settlements, and capital markets investment products; and other products and services, such as life insurance products and funding agreements for funding postretirement benefits, as well as company, bank, or trust-owned life insurance used to finance nonqualified benefit programs for executives. In addition, it provides fixed, indexed-linked, and variable annuities; and pension products; regular savings products; whole and term life, endowments, universal and variable life, and group life products; longevity reinsurance solutions; credit insurance products; and protection against long-term health care services. MetLife, Inc. was founded in 1863 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, MetLife has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.68.
PE Ratio
MetLife has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 9.7. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $9.7 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 5.38%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth declined by 18.8%, now sitting on 69.9B for the twelve trailing months.
Previous days news about MetLife (MET)
- Metlife (met) forms $4b agriculture mortgage loans in 2022. According to Zacks on Friday, 17 March, "MetLife Inc’s (MET Quick QuoteMET – Free Report) asset management business, MetLife Investment Management ("MIM"), announced that it originated $4 billion of agricultural mortgage loans last year. ", "Shares of MetLife have lost 20.3% year to date compared with theindustry’s decline of 16%."
2. Wausau Pape (WPP)
57.67% Payout Ratio
WPP plc, a creative transformation company, provides communications, experience, commerce, and technology services in North America, the United Kingdom, Western Continental Europe, the Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Central and Eastern Europe. The company operates through three segments: Global Integrated Agencies, Public Relations, and Specialist Agencies. It offers plans and creates marketing and branding campaigns; designs and produces advertisements across various media; and provides media buying services, such as strategy and business development, media investment, data and technology, and content. The company also offers public relations advisory services to clients who are seeking to communicate with a range of stakeholders from consumers to governments and the business and financial communities; and specialist agency services. WPP plc was founded in 1985 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Wausau Pape has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-16.87.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 16.19%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Wausau Pape’s stock is valued at $55.99 at 14:23 EST, way under its 52-week high of $71.89 and way above its 52-week low of $39.67.
3. NextEra Energy Partners, LP (NEP)
53.2% Payout Ratio
NextEra Energy Partners, LP acquires, owns, and manages contracted clean energy projects in the United States. It owns a portfolio of contracted renewable generation assets consisting of wind and solar projects, as well as contracted natural gas pipeline assets. The company was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Juno Beach, Florida.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, NextEra Energy Partners, LP has a trailing twelve months EPS of $5.19.
PE Ratio
NextEra Energy Partners, LP has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 12.02. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $12.02 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 8.64%.
4. Texas Instruments (TXN)
49.84% Payout Ratio
Texas Instruments Incorporated designs, manufactures, and sells semiconductors to electronics designers and manufacturers in the United States and internationally. It operates in two segments, Analog and Embedded Processing. The Analog segment offers power products to manage power requirements across various voltage levels, including battery-management solutions, DC/DC switching regulators, AC/DC and isolated controllers and converters, power switches, linear regulators, voltage references, and lighting products. This segment also provides signal chain products that sense, condition, and measure signals to allow information to be transferred or converted for further processing and control, including amplifiers, data converters, interface products, motor drives, clocks, and logic and sensing products. The Embedded Processing segment offers microcontrollers that are used in electronic equipment; digital signal processors for mathematical computations; and applications processors for specific computing activity. This segment offers products for use in various markets, such as industrial, automotive, personal electronics, communications equipment, enterprise systems, and calculators and other. The company also provides DLP products primarily for use in project high-definition images; calculators; and application-specific integrated circuits. It markets and sells its semiconductor products through direct sales and distributors, as well as through its website. Texas Instruments Incorporated was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Texas Instruments has a trailing twelve months EPS of $6.6.
PE Ratio
Texas Instruments has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.65. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.65 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 62.69%.
5. Kayne Anderson Midstream Energy Fund (KMF)
37.58% Payout Ratio
Kayne Anderson NextGen Energy & Infrastructure, Inc. is a close-ended equity mutual fund launched and managed by KA Fund Advisors, LLC. It invests in public equity markets of North America. The fund primarily invests in companies in the midstream/energy sector consisting of Midstream MLPs, Midstream Companies, Other MLPs and Other Energy companies. It invests in stocks of companies across diversified market capitalizations. Kayne Anderson NextGen Energy & Infrastructure, Inc. was formed on November 24, 2010 and is domiciled in the United States.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Kayne Anderson Midstream Energy Fund has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.65.
PE Ratio
Kayne Anderson Midstream Energy Fund has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 4.28. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $4.28 for every dollar of annual earnings.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Kayne Anderson Midstream Energy Fund is 58764 which is 47.17% below its average volume of 111242.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Jan 2, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.64 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 8.8%.
Moving Average
Kayne Anderson Midstream Energy Fund’s value is under its 50-day moving average of $7.60 and under its 200-day moving average of $7.85.
6. Wells Fargo & Company (WFC)
35.03% Payout Ratio
Wells Fargo & Company, a diversified financial services company, provides banking, investment, mortgage, and consumer and commercial finance products and services in the United States and internationally. It operates through four segments: Consumer Banking and Lending; Commercial Banking; Corporate and Investment Banking; and Wealth and Investment Management. The Consumer Banking and Lending segment offers diversified financial products and services for consumers and small businesses. Its financial products and services include checking and savings accounts, and credit and debit cards, as well as home, auto, personal, and small business lending services. The Commercial Banking segment provides financial solutions to private, family owned, and certain public companies. Its products and services include banking and credit products across various industry sectors and municipalities, secured lending and lease products, and treasury management services. The Corporate and Investment Banking segment offers a suite of capital markets, banking, and financial products and services to corporate, commercial real estate, government, and institutional clients. Its products and services comprise corporate banking, investment banking, treasury management, commercial real estate lending and servicing, equity, and fixed income solutions, as well as sales, trading, and research capabilities services. The Wealth and Investment Management segment provides personalized wealth management, brokerage, financial planning, lending, private banking, and trust and fiduciary products and services to affluent, high-net worth, and ultra-high-net worth clients. It also operates through financial advisors. Wells Fargo & Company was founded in 1852 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Wells Fargo & Company has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.46.
PE Ratio
Wells Fargo & Company has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26 for every dollar of annual earnings.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is 6.93%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is 30.7% and 64.9%, respectively.
Sales Growth
Wells Fargo & Company’s sales growth is 14.8% for the present quarter and 17.4% for the next.
Moving Average
Wells Fargo & Company’s value is way below its 50-day moving average of $45.16 and way below its 200-day moving average of $43.78.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Feb 1, 2023, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.2 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 2.49%.
