(VIANEWS) - Telefonica (TEF), Alamos Gold (AGI), Sysco Corporation (SYY) are the highest payout ratio stocks on this list.
We have gathered information regarding stocks with the highest payout ratio up until now. 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. Telefonica (TEF)
324.29% Payout Ratio
Telefonica, S.A., along with its subsidiaries, offers telecommunications services throughout Europe and Latin America. Its services include mobile voice, value-added, mobile data, Internet, wholesale, corporate roaming, fixed wireless, trunking, and paging. Fixed telecommunications services offered by the company include ISDN accesses, PSTN lines, public phone services, local, national, and international fixed-tomobile communications, corporate communications, supplementary value-added service, video telephony, intelligent network, and handset leasing and sales. It also offers broadband multimedia services, including Internet service provider, portal, network, wholesale broadband access and narrowband switched access. High-speed Internet via fibre to home is available as well as voice over Internet protocol. It also offers web hosting, application outsourcing, consultancy, system integration, professional services, as well as leased lines, virtual private networks, fiber optics and web hosting. The company also offers wholesale services to telecommunications operators. These include domestic interconnection, international wholesale services and leased lines, for other operators. It also provides local loop leasing and bit stream services. Wholesale line rental accesses and leased conduits for fiber deployment by other operators. It also offers video/TV services and smart connectivity, as well as consumer IoT products, financial and security services. The company also provides online telemedicine and home insurance as well as music streaming and consumer loans services. It was founded in Madrid, Spain in 1924.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Telefonica has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.289.
PE Ratio
Telefonica has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 12.84. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $12.84 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 2.9%.2. Alamos Gold (AGI)
166.67% Payout Ratio
Alamos Gold Inc. and its affiliates engage in the exploration, discovery, development, extraction, and acquisition of North American gold deposits. The company also searches for precious and silver metals. Young-Davidson is Canada's most prominent project. It includes 11,000 acres of claims and contiguous mineral leases. The company also has interests in several development-stage projects throughout Turkey, Canada and Mexico. The former name of the company was AuRico Gold Inc., but it changed its name in July 2015 to Alamos Gold Inc. It was founded in 2003. The headquarters are located in Toronto, Canada.
Earnings per Share
Alamos Gold's trailing twelve-month EPS is $0.06.
PE Ratio
Alamos Gold's trailing 12-month price-earnings ratio is 135.17. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $135.17 per dollar in annual earnings.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is an indicator of the business' profitability relative to shareholders' equity, was 0.96%.3. Sysco Corporation (SYY)
71.97% Payout Ratio
Sysco Corporation and its subsidiaries engage in marketing and distribution for various foods and related products. They do this mainly to the foodservice and food-away from-home industries in the United States and Canada. The company operates under the U.S. Foodservice Operations and International Foodservice Operations (SYGMA) as well as other segments. It distributes frozen foods such as meats, seafood, prepared meals, fruits and vegetables, dairy products, beverages, imported specialties, and fresh produce. The company also sells a variety of non-food products, such as paper napkins, cups, plates and cups, disposable china and silverware tableware and cookware. This includes pots and pans and other utensils, restaurant equipment, supplies, cleaning supplies, and even kitchen and cooking supplies. It supplies foodservice equipment to restaurants, nursing homes, hospitals, schools, colleges, motels, factories, caterers and other venues. It had 333 distribution centers as of July 2, 2022. Sysco Corporation was founded in 1969. It is located in Houston, Texas.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Sysco Corporation has a trailing twelve months EPS of $-0.66.
The company's return on equity, which measures the profitability of a business relative to shareholder's equity, for the twelve trailing months is 90.53%.Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Oct 5, 2022, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.96 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 2.35%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Sysco Corporation's stock is valued at $83.47 at 13:23 EST, under its 52-week high of $91.53 and way higher than its 52-week low of $68.05.
4. Tekla Healthcare Opportunies Fund Shares of Beneficial Interest (THQ)
49.82% Payout Ratio
Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund is a closed ended balanced mutual fund launched and managed by Tekla Capital Management LLC. The fund invests in public equity and fixed income markets across the globe. It seeks to invest in securities of companies operating in the healthcare sector. The fund also invests in pooled investment vehicles. For its fixed income portion, the fund invests in corporate debt securities across the credit rating spectrum. It benchmarks the performance of its portfolio against the S&P 1500 Healthcare Index and S&P 500 Index. Tekla Healthcare Opportunities Fund was formed on April 2, 2014 and is domiciled in the United States.