(VIANEWS) – Knight Transportation (KNX), Exelon (EXC), United Bankshares (UBSI) are the highest payout ratio stocks on this list.
Here’s the data we’ve collected of stocks with a high payout ratio up until now. The payout ratio in itself isn’t a promise of a future good investment but it’s an indicator of whether dividends are being paid and how the company chooses to distribute them.
When researching a potential investment, the dividend payout ratio is a good statistic to know so here is a list of some companies with an above 30% payout ratio.
1. Knight Transportation (KNX)
85.29% Payout Ratio
Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides truckload transportation services in the United States and Mexico. The company operates through three segments: Trucking, Logistics, and Intermodal. Its trucking services include irregular route, dedicated, refrigerated, flatbed, expedited, dry van, drayage, and cross-border transportation of various products, goods, and materials. The company also provides logistics and intermodal services, such as brokerage, intermodal, and certain logistics; freight management; and non-trucking services. In addition, it offers various support services, including repair and maintenance shop services, warranty, insurance, and equipment leasing; and trailer parts manufacturing services, as well as engages in the driving academy activities. The company operates a total of 18,877 tractors, which comprises 16,432 company-owned tractors and 2,445 independent contractor tractors, as well as 58,315 trailers; and 643 tractors and 9,862 intermodal containers. It serves retail, food and beverage, consumer products, paper products, transportation and logistics, housing and building, automotive, and manufacturing industries. Knight-Swift Transportation Holdings Inc. was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Phoenix, Arizona.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Knight Transportation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.68.
PE Ratio
Knight Transportation has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 73.53. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $73.53 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 1.54%.
Moving Average
Knight Transportation’s worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $48.73 and below its 200-day moving average of $52.37.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter and the next is a negative 42.9% and a negative 17.1%, respectively.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Jun 10, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.64 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.28%.
2. Exelon (EXC)
62.66% Payout Ratio
Exelon Corporation, a utility services holding company, engages in the energy distribution and transmission businesses in the United States and Canada. The company is involved in the purchase and regulated retail sale of electricity and natural gas, transmission and distribution of electricity, and distribution of natural gas to retail customers. It also offers support services, including legal, human resources, information technology, supply management, financial, engineering, customer operations, transmission and distribution planning, asset management, system operations, and power procurement services. It serves distribution utilities, municipalities, and financial institutions, as well as commercial, industrial, governmental, and residential customers. Exelon Corporation was incorporated in 1999 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Exelon has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.34.
PE Ratio
Exelon has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 15.59. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $15.59 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 9.06%.
3. United Bankshares (UBSI)
55.73% Payout Ratio
United Bankshares, Inc., a financial holding company, primarily provides commercial and retail banking products and services in the United States. It operates through two segments, Community Banking and Mortgage Banking. The company accepts checking, savings, and time and money market accounts; individual retirement accounts; and demand deposits, statement and special savings, and interest-bearing checking accounts. Its loan products include commercial loans and leases; construction and real estate loans; personal, credit card, commercial, and floor plan loans; and credit card and home equity loans. In addition, the company provides credit cards; safe deposit boxes, wire transfers, and other banking products and services; investment and security services; services to correspondent banks, including buying and selling federal funds; automated teller machine services; and internet and telephone banking services. Further, it offers community banking services, such as asset management, real property title insurance, financial planning, mortgage banking, and brokerage services. As of January 28, 2021, the company operated 230 offices in West Virginia, Virginia, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. United Bankshares, Inc. was incorporated in 1982 and is headquartered in Charleston, West Virginia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, United Bankshares has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.62.
PE Ratio
United Bankshares has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 13.01. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $13.01 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 7.54%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
United Bankshares’s stock is valued at $34.09 at 08:23 EST, way below its 52-week high of $38.74 and way higher than its 52-week low of $25.35.
Dividend Yield
According to Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Jun 14, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.48 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 4.35%.
4. MGE Energy (MGEE)
50.9% Payout Ratio
MGE Energy, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a public utility holding company primarily in Wisconsin. It operates through five segments: Regulated Electric Utility Operations; Regulated Gas Utility Operations; Nonregulated Energy Operations; Transmission Investments; and All Other. The company generates, purchases, and distributes electricity; owns or leases electric generation facilities located in Wisconsin and Iowa; and plans, constructs, operates, maintains, and expands transmission facilities to provide transmission services. It also generates electricity from coal-fired, gas-fired, and renewable energy sources, as well as purchases power under short and long-term commitments. As of February 24, 2021, the company generated and distributed electricity to 157,000 customers in Dane County, Wisconsin; and purchased and distributed natural gas to 166,000 customers in seven south-central and western Wisconsin counties. MGE Energy, Inc. was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, MGE Energy has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.32.
PE Ratio
MGE Energy has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 26.04. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $26.04 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 10.67%.
Moving Average
MGE Energy’s value is above its 50-day moving average of $78.75 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $74.30.
5. MKS Instruments (MKSI)
37.45% Payout Ratio
MKS Instruments, Inc. provides instruments, systems, subsystems, and process control solutions that measure, monitor, deliver, analyze, power, and control critical parameters of manufacturing processes worldwide. Its Vacuum & Analysis segment offers pressure and vacuum control solutions, including direct and indirect pressure measurement; materials delivery solutions comprising flow and valve technologies, as well as integrated pressure measurement and control subsystems, which provide customers with precise control capabilities; power delivery products, such as microwave, power delivery systems, radio frequency matching networks, and metrology products used in providing energy to etching, stripping, and deposition processes; and plasma and reactive gas products. The company's Light & Motion segment offers laser-based systems, such as amplifiers, fiber lasers, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, high-energy pulsed lasers, and tunable lasers; and photonics products comprising optical components, lens assemblies, and vibration isolation solutions, as well as instruments and motion products, such as high-precision motion stages and controls, hexapods, photonics instruments for measurement and analysis, and production equipment for test and measurement. Its Equipment & Solutions segment provides laser-based systems for printed circuit board (PCB) manufacturing, including flexible interconnect PCB processing systems and high-density interconnect solutions for rigid PCB manufacturing and substrate processing, as well as passive component multilayer ceramic capacitor testing. The company serves semiconductor, industrial technologies, life and health sciences, research, and defense markets. It markets and sells its products and services through its direct sales organization, independent distributors, and sales representatives, as well as through its websites and product catalogs. MKS Instruments, Inc. was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Andover, Massachusetts.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, MKS Instruments has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-26.68.
The company’s return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder’s equity, for the twelve trailing months is negative -51.9%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for MKS Instruments is 838596 which is 13.53% below its average volume of 969893.
Moving Average
MKS Instruments’s worth is under its 50-day moving average of $131.63 and way higher than its 200-day moving average of $110.92.
6. Timberland Bancorp (TSBK)
30.39% Payout Ratio
Timberland Bancorp, Inc. operates as the bank holding company for Timberland Bank that provides various banking services in Washington. It offers various deposit products, including money market deposit accounts, checking accounts, regular savings accounts, and certificates of deposit. The company also provides one-to four-family residential, multi-family, commercial real estate, construction, custom and owner/builder construction, speculative one- to four-family construction, commercial construction, multi-family construction, land development construction, and land loans. In addition, it offers consumer loans comprising home equity lines of credit and second mortgage loans; and automobile loans, boat loans, motorcycle loans, recreational vehicle loans, savings account loans, and unsecured loans, as well as commercial business loans. The company operates 24 branches located in Grays Harbor, Pierce, Thurston, Kitsap, King, and Lewis counties in Washington. As of September 30, 2020, it operated 25 proprietary automated teller machines. Timberland Bancorp, Inc. was founded in 1915 and is based in Hoquiam, Washington.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Timberland Bancorp has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.06.
PE Ratio
Timberland Bancorp has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 8.82. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $8.82 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 10.7%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Timberland Bancorp’s stock is valued at $26.98 at 08:23 EST, way below its 52-week high of $32.20 and way higher than its 52-week low of $23.93.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on May 9, 2024, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.96 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.55%.
Moving Average
Timberland Bancorp’s value is above its 50-day moving average of $25.62 and below its 200-day moving average of $27.35.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Timberland Bancorp is 11205 which is 8.75% below its average volume of 12280.
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1% Payout Ratio
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Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, 1 has a trailing twelve months EPS of $1.
PE Ratio
1 has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 1. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $1 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 1%.
