(VIANEWS) – Corporate Office Properties Trust (OFC), Unilever (UL), ONE Gas (OGS) are the highest payout ratio stocks on this list.
We have congregated information regarding stocks with the highest payout ratio so far. 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. Corporate Office Properties Trust (OFC)
117.02% Payout Ratio
COPT is a REIT that owns, manages, leases, develops and selectively acquires office and data center properties. The majority of its portfolio is in locations that support the United States Government and its contractors, most of whom are engaged in national security, defense and information technology (“IT”) related activities servicing what it believes are growing, durable, priority missions (“Defense/IT Locations”). The Company also owns a portfolio of office properties located in select urban/urban-like submarkets in the Greater Washington, DC/Baltimore region with durable Class-A office fundamentals and characteristics (“Regional Office Properties”). As of September 30, 2020, the Company derived 88% of its core portfolio annualized rental revenue from Defense/IT Locations and 12% from its Regional Office Properties. As of the same date and including 15 properties owned through unconsolidated joint ventures, COPT's core portfolio of 174 office and data center shell properties encompassed 20.2 million square feet and was 94.6% leased; the Company also owned one wholesale data center with a critical load of 19.25 megawatts that was 86.7% leased.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Corporate Office Properties Trust has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.87.
PE Ratio
Corporate Office Properties Trust has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 29.75. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $29.75 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 6.47%.
Moving Average
Corporate Office Properties Trust’s value is under its 50-day moving average of $26.64 and under its 200-day moving average of $26.25.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Dec 28, 2022, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.1 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 4.13%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Corporate Office Properties Trust is 171820 which is 73.51% below its average volume of 648761.
2. Unilever (UL)
75.82% Payout Ratio
Unilever PLC operates as a fast-moving consumer goods company. It operates through Beauty & Personal Care, Foods & Refreshment, and Home Care segments. The Beauty & Personal Care segment provides skin care and hair care products, deodorants, and skin cleansing products. The Foods & Refreshment segment offers ice cream, soups, bouillons, seasonings, mayonnaise, ketchups, and tea categories. The Home Care segment provides fabric solutions and various cleaning products. The company offers its products under the Domestos, OMO, Seventh Generation, Ben & Jerry's, Knorr, Magnum, Wall's, Bango, the Vegetarian Butcher, Axe, Cif, Comfort, Dove, Lifebuoy, Lux, Rexona, Sunsilk, Equilibra, OLLY, Liquid I.V., SmartyPants, Onnit, Hellmann's, and Vaseline brands. Unilever PLC was incorporated in 1894 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Unilever has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.55.
PE Ratio
Unilever has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 19.7. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $19.7 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 30.43%.
Revenue Growth
Year-on-year quarterly revenue growth grew by 14.9%, now sitting on 56.28B for the twelve trailing months.
Moving Average
Unilever’s worth is below its 50-day moving average of $50.68 and above its 200-day moving average of $47.23.
Previous days news about Unilever (UL)
- Unilever tries reformulating its ice cream to survive warmer freezers. According to The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, 22 February, "If the pilots are deemed successful, Unilever will need to manually increase the temperature of its freezers in around 60 countries. ", "But the strategy has required Unilever to reformulate some of its ice creams so they can withstand higher temperatures without melting, losing structural integrity or forfeiting what the company calls their distinctive mouthfeel. "
3. ONE Gas (OGS)
61.31% Payout Ratio
ONE Gas, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a regulated natural gas distribution utility company in the United States. The company operates through three divisions: Oklahoma Natural Gas, Kansas Gas Service, and Texas Gas Service. It provides natural gas distribution services to 2.2 million customers in three states. It serves residential, commercial, and transportation customers. As of December 31, 2021, it operated approximately 41,600 miles of distribution mains; and 2,400 miles of transmission pipelines, as well as had 51.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas storage capacity. ONE Gas, Inc. was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, ONE Gas has a trailing twelve months EPS of $3.75.
PE Ratio
ONE Gas has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 21.24. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $21.24 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 9.04%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for ONE Gas is 330527 which is 48.19% below its average volume of 637975.
Sales Growth
ONE Gas’s sales growth is negative 27.5% for the ongoing quarter and negative 8% for the next.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
ONE Gas’s stock is valued at $79.74 at 07:23 EST, way below its 52-week high of $92.26 and way higher than its 52-week low of $68.86.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is 8% and 1.1%, respectively.
Previous days news about ONE Gas (OGS)
- ONE gas (ogs) Q4 earnings and revenues surpass estimates. According to Zacks on Thursday, 23 February, "While ONE Gas has outperformed the market so far this year, the question that comes to investors’ minds is: what’s next for the stock?"
- ONE gas' (ogs) Q4 earnings and revenues beat estimates. According to Zacks on Thursday, 23 February, "In the reported quarter, ONE Gas served 2,254,000 customers, up 0.7% from the year-ago quarter’s level."
4. Broadridge Financial Solutions (BR)
60.8% Payout Ratio
Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. provides investor communications and technology-driven solutions for the financial services industry. The company's Investor Communication Solutions segment processes and distributes proxy materials to investors in equity securities and mutual funds, as well as facilitates related vote processing services; and distributes regulatory reports, class action, and corporate action/reorganization event information, as well as tax reporting solutions. It also offers ProxyEdge, an electronic proxy delivery and voting solution; data-driven solutions and an end-to-end platform for content management, composition, and omni-channel distribution of regulatory, marketing, and transactional information, as well as mutual fund trade processing services; data and analytics solutions; solutions for public corporations and mutual funds; SEC filing and capital markets transaction services; registrar, stock transfer, and record-keeping services; and omni-channel customer communications solutions, as well as operates Broadridge Communications Cloud platform that creates, delivers, and manages communications and customer engagement activities. The company's Global Technology and Operations segment provides solutions that automate the front-to-back transaction lifecycle of equity, mutual fund, fixed income, foreign exchange and exchange-traded derivatives, order capture and execution, trade confirmation, margin, cash management, clearance and settlement, reference data management, reconciliations, securities financing and collateral management, asset servicing, compliance and regulatory reporting, portfolio accounting, and custody-related services. This segment also offers business process outsourcing services; technology solutions, such portfolio management, compliance, fee billing, and operational support solutions; and capital market and wealth management solutions. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Lake Success, New York.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Broadridge Financial Solutions has a trailing twelve months EPS of $4.43.
PE Ratio
Broadridge Financial Solutions has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 31.92. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $31.92 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 30.14%.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Dec 13, 2022, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 2.9 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 1.99%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Broadridge Financial Solutions is 155726 which is 71.11% below its average volume of 539131.
Moving Average
Broadridge Financial Solutions’s value is below its 50-day moving average of $142.85 and below its 200-day moving average of $148.87.
Sales Growth
Broadridge Financial Solutions’s sales growth is 7.5% for the current quarter and 7.2% for the next.
