The Best Growing Dividend Stocks From The Dow Jones

Dividend Stocks With Best Growth Rates From The Dow Jones Index Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The Dow Jones is of huge importance for the financial industry. Many investors allocate their assets on the structure of the index which was created by Wall Street Journal editor and Dow Jones & Company co-founder Charles Dow and is now owned by Dow Jones Indexes, a majority owned company of the CME Group. Over the past ten years, stocks from the index generated a performance of 27.11 percent and over the recent forty years, the index is thirteen times higher. Year-to-date, the index is up 6.9 percent.

I screened the 30 Dow Jones stocks by the best growth rates. First, earnings per share should have grown by more than five percent over the recent half decade and second, they should grow for at least ten percent for the next half decade. Eight stocks fulfilled these growth criteria of which all are recommended to buy.

Here are my favorite stocks:

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United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) has a market capitalization of $74.16 billion. The company employs 199,900 people, generates revenues of $58,190.00 million and has a net income of $5,374.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $9,387.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 16.13 percent (operating margin 13.92 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.24 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 16.70 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 46.89 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 23.02 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.50. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.86 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.85, P/S ratio 1.28 and P/B ratio 3.38. Dividend Yield: 2.35 percent. The beta ratio is 1.04.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of United Technologies Corp. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of United Technologies Corp. (UTX) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of United Technologies Corp. (NYSE: UTX) (Click to enlarge)

Intl. Business Machines (NYSE:IBM) has a market capitalization of $238.07 billion. The company employs 433,362 people, generates revenues of $106,916.00 million and has a net income of $15,855.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $26,266.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 24.57 percent (operating margin 19.64 percent and the net profit margin finally 14.83 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 26.90 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 155.54 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 73.43 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $13.08. Last fiscal year, the company paid $2.90 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.71, P/S ratio 2.23 and P/B ratio 11.87. Dividend Yield: 1.46 percent. The beta ratio is 0.65.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Intl. Business Machine... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Intl. Business Machine... (IBM) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Intl. Business Machine... (NYSE: IBM) (Click to enlarge)

American Express Company (NYSE:AXP) has a market capitalization of $69.83 billion. The company employs 62,500 people, generates revenues of $32,282.00 million and has a net income of $4,899.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $10,194.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 31.58 percent (operating margin 21.55 percent and the net profit margin finally 15.18 percent).


Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 41.08 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 335.18 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 27.64 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $4.09. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.72 in form of dividends to shareholders.


Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.22, P/S ratio 2.10 and P/B ratio 3.60. Dividend Yield: 1.38 percent. The beta ratio is 1.84.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of American Express Company (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of American Express Company (AXP) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of American Express Company (NYSE: AXP) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the best growing Dow Jones dividend stocks. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 14.95 and forward P/E ratio is 12.28. The dividend yield has a value of 2.07 percent. Price to book ratio is 6.50 and price to sales ratio 1.97. The operating margin amounts to 19.91 percent. Sales increased 4.78 over the 5-year average and the earnings per share grew 12.86 percent. For the next five years, earnings are expected to grow 12.80 percent.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):

The Best Growing Dividend Stocks From The Dow Jones (Click to enlarge)

Related stock ticker symbols:

CAT, DIS, UTX, BA, INTC, IBM, AXP, MCD

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· 12 Of The S&P 500 Dividend Stocks With Highest Expected Growth

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For the other stocks: I have no positions in any stocks mentioned, and no plans to initiate any positions within the next 72 hours. I receive no compensation to write about any specific stock, sector or theme.