(VIANEWS) – Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH), Flowers Foods (FLO), Juniper Networks (JNPR) are the highest payout ratio stocks on this list.
We have collected information about stocks with the highest payout ratio up to now. The payout ratio in itself isn’t a promise of good investment but it’s an indicator of whether dividends are being paid and how the company chooses to issue them.
When researching 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. Armada Hoffler Properties (AHH)
86.42% Payout Ratio
Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc. (NYSE: AHH) is a vertically-integrated, self-managed real estate investment trust ("REIT") with four decades of experience developing, building, acquiring, and managing high-quality, institutional-grade office, retail, and multifamily properties located primarily in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern United States. In addition to developing and building properties for its own account, the Company also provides development and general contracting construction services to third-party clients. Founded in 1979 by Daniel A. Hoffler, the Company has elected to be taxed as a REIT for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Armada Hoffler Properties has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.81.
PE Ratio
Armada Hoffler Properties has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 15.43. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $15.43 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 10.58%.
2. Flowers Foods (FLO)
83.33% Payout Ratio
Flowers Foods, Inc. produces and markets packaged bakery products in the United States. It offers fresh breads, buns, rolls, snack cakes, and tortillas, as well as frozen breads and rolls under the Nature's Own, Dave's Killer Bread, Wonder, Canyon Bakehouse, Mrs. Freshley's, and Tastykake brand names. The company distributes its products through a direct-store-delivery distribution and a warehouse delivery system, as well as operates 46 bakeries comprising 44 owned and two leased. Its customers include mass merchandisers, supermarkets and other retailers, convenience stores, national and regional restaurants, quick-serve chains, retail in-store bakeries, foodservice distributors, food wholesalers, institutions, dollar stores, and vending companies. The company was formerly known as Flowers Industries and changed its name to Flowers Foods, Inc. in 2001. Flowers Foods, Inc. was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Thomasville, Georgia.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Flowers Foods has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.72.
PE Ratio
Flowers Foods has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 37.57. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $37.57 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 15.14%.
Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Flowers Foods’s stock is valued at $27.01 at 07:23 EST, way below its 52-week high of $30.16 and way higher than its 52-week low of $24.15.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the current quarter is a negative 6.7% and positive 25% for the next.
Sales Growth
Flowers Foods’s sales growth for the next quarter is 11.2%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Flowers Foods is 3360760 which is 110.94% above its average volume of 1593220.
3. Juniper Networks (JNPR)
64.84% Payout Ratio
Juniper Networks, Inc. designs, develops, and sells network products and services worldwide. The company offers routing products, such as ACX series universal access routers to deploy high-bandwidth services; MX series Ethernet routers that function as a universal edge platform; PTX series packet transport routers; cloud customer premises equipment; and NorthStar controllers. It also provides switching products, including EX series Ethernet switches to address the access, aggregation, and core layer switching requirements of micro branch, branch office, and campus environments; QFX series of core, spine, and top-of-rack data center switches; and mist access points, which provide wireless access and performance. In addition, the company offers security products comprising SRX series services gateways for the data center; Branch SRX family provides an integrated firewall and next-generation firewall; virtual firewall that delivers various features of physical firewalls; and advanced malware protection, a cloud-based service and Juniper ATP. Further, it offers Junos OS, a network operating system; Contrail networking and cloud platform, which provides an open-source and standards-based platform for SDN and NFV; Contrail Insights, an optimization and management software platform for public, private, and hybrid clouds; and Marvis Actions and AI-driven Virtual Network Assistant, which identifies the root cause of issues across the information technology, domains and automatically resolves issues. Additionally, the company provides technical support, maintenance, and professional services, as well as education and training programs. It sells its products through direct sales, distributors, value-added resellers, and original equipment manufacturer partners to end-users in the cloud, service provider, and enterprise markets. The company was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Juniper Networks has a trailing twelve months EPS of $0.62.
PE Ratio
Juniper Networks has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 52.35. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $52.35 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 9.71%.
Growth Estimates Quarters
The company’s growth estimates for the present quarter and the next is 14.3% and 29%, respectively.
Dividend Yield
As claimed by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Nov 29, 2022, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 0.84 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 2.8%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Juniper Networks is 6858460 which is 113.48% above its average volume of 3212680.
4. Medical Properties Trust (MPW)
55.02% Payout Ratio
Medical Properties Trust, Inc. is a self-advised real estate investment trust formed in 2003 to acquire and develop net-leased hospital facilities. From its inception in Birmingham, Alabama, the Company has grown to become one of the world's largest owners of hospitals with approximately 390 facilities and roughly 42,000 licensed beds in nine countries and across four continents on a pro forma basis. MPT's financing model facilitates acquisitions and recapitalizations and allows operators of hospitals to unlock the value of their real estate assets to fund facility improvements, technology upgrades and other investments in operations.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Medical Properties Trust has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.09.
PE Ratio
Medical Properties Trust has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 6.06. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $6.06 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 14.55%.
Dividend Yield
As stated by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Dec 6, 2022, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 1.16 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 8.88%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Medical Properties Trust is 5008280 which is 62.16% below its average volume of 13238300.
Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization
Medical Properties Trust’s EBITDA is 41.47.
5. Caterpillar (CAT)
35.55% Payout Ratio
Caterpillar Inc. manufactures and sells construction and mining equipment, diesel and natural gas engines, and industrial gas turbines. Its Construction Industries segment offers asphalt pavers, compactors, cold planers, feller bunchers, harvesters, motorgraders, pipelayers, road reclaimers, skidders, telehandlers, and utility vehicles; backhoe, knuckleboom, compact track, multi-terrain, skid steer, and track-type loaders; forestry and wheel excavators; and site prep and track-type tractors. The company's Resource Industries segment provides electric rope and hydraulic shovels, draglines, rotary drills, hard rock vehicles, track-type tractors, mining trucks, longwall miners, wheel loaders, off-highway and articulated trucks, wheel tractor scrapers, wheel dozers, landfill and soil compactors, machinery components, electronics and control systems, select work tools, and hard rock continuous mining systems. Its Energy & Transportation segment offers reciprocating engine powered generator sets; reciprocating engines and integrated systems for the power generation, marine, oil, and gas industries; turbines, centrifugal gas compressors, and related services; remanufactured reciprocating engines and components; and diesel-electric locomotives and components, and other rail-related products. The company's Financial Products segment provides operating and finance leases, installment sale contracts, working capital loans, and wholesale financing; and insurance and risk management products. Its All Other operating segment manufactures filters and fluids, undercarriage, ground engaging tools, fluid transfer products, precision seals, and rubber sealing and connecting components; parts distribution; integrated logistics solutions and distribution services; and digital investments services. The company was formerly known as Caterpillar Tractor Co. and changed its name to Caterpillar Inc. in 1986. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, Caterpillar has a trailing twelve months EPS of $6.25.
PE Ratio
Caterpillar has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 39.16. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $39.16 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 45.61%.
Volume
Today’s last reported volume for Caterpillar is 1967820 which is 38.66% below its average volume of 3208240.
Previous days news about Caterpillar (CAT)
- Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: fidelity, ralph lauren, caterpillar and more. According to CNBC on Monday, 13 February, "Caterpillar – Shares of the machinery company fell more than 1% after Baird downgraded Caterpillar to neutral from outperform. ", "The investment firm said in a note to clients that Caterpillar is "nearing a cyclical pivot point" and that revenue growth is set to slow."
