(VIANEWS) - W.P. Carey REIT (WPC), Capital Southwest Corporation (CSWC), Cisco (CSCO) are the highest payout ratio stocks on this list.
We have collected information regarding stocks with the highest payout ratio at the moment. 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 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. W.P. Carey REIT (WPC)
153.56% Payout Ratio
W. P. Carey ranks among the largest net lease REITs with an enterprise value of approximately $18 billion and a diversified portfolio of operationally-critical commercial real estate that includes 1,215 net lease properties covering approximately 142 million square feet as of September 30, 2020. The company invests in quality single-tenant industrial and warehouse properties as well as self-storage properties. The majority of its portfolio are located in North and Western Europe, the U.S., and Northern Europe. It is also well-diversified according to tenant type, geographical location, and tenant industry.
Earnings Per Share
As for profitability, W.P. Carey REIT has a trailing twelve months EPS of $2.5.
PE Ratio
W.P. Carey REIT has a trailing twelve months price to earnings ratio of 31.34. Meaning, the purchaser of the share is investing $31.34 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%.2. Capital Southwest Corporation (CSWC)
104.89% Payout Ratio
Capital Southwest Corporation, a business development firm, specializes in venture capital and credit. Capital Southwest Corporation does not invest or deal in publicly traded companies, venture capital opportunities, real estate development, projects, oil and natural gas exploration companies, companies that are in trouble, turnarounds or companies with significant senior management. The firm invests most commonly in the lower middle market. This includes growth financing, bolt on acquisitions and new platform acquisitions. Refinancing, dividend recapitalizations. Sponsor-led buyouts. Management buyouts are also possible. There are four types of investment: subordinated, senior, Unitranche, common, preferred, and second-lien debt. It makes equity coinvestments in addition to debt investments up to 20%. The company also makes non-control investment. The firm prefers to invest into industrial manufacturing and services as well as value-added distribution and healthcare products and services. It also offers business services, specialty chemicals and food, and tech-enabled and SaaS model investments. It is interested in investing in industrial technologies and energy products as well as specialty chemicals and products. The firm is interested in investing in all segments of energy services and products. This excludes exploration and production. It also seeks investment in equipment rental and consumable products. It is interested in industrial technology, including automation, process control, packaging, fluid handling, measuring, monitoring, testing, professional instruments, sensors, and instrumentation. The firm is interested in investing in specialty chemicals and products that create and produce highly differentiated chemicals. This includes adhesives, coatings sealants and catalysts as well as absorbents and catalysts. It also invests in performance lubricants and polymers. Chemical dispensing equipment and tools for professional and industrial use. The firm may invest in outstanding opportunities in building products. It seeks investment in the United States. It seeks investments in securities ranging between $5 million and $25 millions. The firm is looking to invest in equity up to $5million and to borrow between $5 million to $20 million. It also co-invests up to $40 million. It will invest only in businesses with annual revenues of more than $10 million and profitable operations. . It invests in companies that have less than $15,000,000 in EBITDA. However, the firm also invests opportunistically in the upper market. This is generally defined as those with EBITDA greater than $50 million. The firm makes direct investments and also allocates capital for syndicated second and first lien term loans. EBITDA size greater than $30M, Closing Leverage higher than 4x, investment holding size greater than $5 million to $7 million, and an investment yield of 6.5% or more are the criteria for Upper Middle Market Syndicated 1st Len. EBITDA size greater than $50,000,000, Closing Leverage greater that 6 times, investment holding size of $5m to $7m, and investment yield greater then 9% are the criteria for Upper Middle Market Syndicated 2nd Lien. The firm prefers to own both a majority or a minority share. It can hold its investments in portfolio companies for a very long time. The firm may also purchase warrants. It prefers Board participation in portfolio companies. Capital Southwest Corporation was established in Dallas on April 19, 1961.
Earnings per Share
Capital Southwest Corporation's trailing twelve-month EPS is $1.84.
PE Ratio
Capital Southwest Corporation's trailing 12-month price-earnings ratio is 9.29. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $9.29 per dollar in annual earnings.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is a measure of the business' profitability relative to shareholders' equity, was 10.31%.Sales Growth
Capital Southwest Corporation's sales growth is 33.7% for the current quarter and 50.6% for the next.
3. Cisco (CSCO)
53.19% Payout Ratio
Cisco Systems, Inc. designs, manufactures, and sells Internet Protocol based networking and other products related to the communications and information technology industry in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Asia Pacific, Japan, and China. The company also offers switching portfolio encompasses campus switching as well as data center switching; enterprise routing portfolio interconnects public and private wireline and mobile networks, delivering highly secure, and reliable connectivity to campus, data center and branch networks; wireless products include wireless access points that are standalone, controller appliance-based, switch-converged, and Meraki cloud-managed offerings; and compute portfolio including the cisco unified computing system, hyperflex, and software management capabilities, which combine computing, networking, and storage infrastructure management and virtualization. In addition, it provides Internet for the future product consists of routed optical networking, 5G, silicon, and optics solutions; collaboration products, such as meetings, collaboration devices, calling, contact center, and communication platform as a service; end-to-end security product consists of network security, cloud security, security endpoints, unified threat management, and zero trust; and optimized application experiences products including full stack observability and cloud-native platform. Further, the company offers a range of service and support options for its customers, including technical support and advanced services and advisory services. It serves businesses of various sizes, public institutions, governments, and service providers. The company sells its products and services directly, as well as through systems integrators, service providers, other resellers, and distributors. Cisco Systems, Inc. has strategic alliances with other companies. Cisco Systems, Inc. was incorporated in 1984 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Earnings per Share
Cisco's trailing 12 month EPS is $2.39.
PE Ratio
Cisco's trailing 12-month price-earnings ratio is 20.45. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $20.45 per dollar in annual earnings.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is a measure of the business' profitability relative to shareholders' equity, was 29.15%.Yearly Top and Bottom Value
Cisco's stock is valued at $48.87 at 19:23 EST, way under its 52-week high of $62.82 and way above its 52-week low of $38.60.
Moving Average
Cisco's worth is higher than its 50-day moving average of $47.09 and above its 200-day moving average of $46.26.4. JP Morgan Chase (JPM)
33.76% Payout Ratio
JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a global financial services firm. There are four main segments to it: Consumer & Community Banking, Corporate & Investment Bank and Commercial Banking. Asset & Wealth Management is another segment. The CCB section offers a variety of deposit, investment, lending and payments products and services. It also lends, deposits, and cash management solutions and payment solutions for small businesses. Mortgage origination and servicing activities, residential mortgages, home equity loans, credit cards, auto loans, and leasing services. The CIB segment offers investment banking services including strategy and structure advice, equity and debt market capital-raising, loan origination, syndication, payments, cross-border financing, cash and derivatives, risk management, prime brokerage and research. The segment offers services such as custody, fund accounting, administration and securities lending products to asset managers, insurers, public and private funds, and for investment companies. CB provides financial services, such as lending, payments and investment banking. It also offers asset management for small and medium-sized businesses, government agencies, nonprofit clients, and commercial real property banking services to developers and investors. AWM offers multi-asset solutions for institutional investors and clients with fixed income and alternative investments. It also provides retirement products and services such as brokerage, custody and trusts. It also offers ATM, mobile and phone banking services. JPMorgan Chase & Co. is a New York-based company that was established in 1799.
Earnings per Share
JP Morgan Chase's trailing 12-month EPS is $12.61.
PE Ratio
JP Morgan Chase's trailing 12-month price-to-earnings ratio is 11.34. The purchaser of the shares is therefore investing $11.34 per dollar in annual earnings.
For the 12 trailing months, the company's return-on-equity, which is a measure of the profitability and shareholder equity for a business, was 12.83%.Growth Estimates Quarters
The company's growth estimates for the current quarter is a negative 6% and positive 28.5% for the next.Sales Growth
JP Morgan Chase's sales growth is 12.5% for the ongoing quarter and 14.6% for the next.
Dividend Yield
As maintained by Morningstar, Inc., the next dividend payment is on Oct 4, 2022, the estimated forward annual dividend rate is 4 and the estimated forward annual dividend yield is 3.21%.
Volume
The JP Morgan Chase's latest reported volume is 16801900, which is 47.51% more than its average volume of 113990100.

