The Best Yielding Large Cap Technology Stocks

Large Capitalized Technology Dividend Stocks With Highest Yield Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. It’s very important to know what yields are traded within a sector or industry in order to compare risks and premiums. I made a screen of the best yielding large capitalized technology stocks. 82 companies from the technology sector have a market capitalization over USD 10 billion and 56 of them pay dividends. Below, I listed all stocks with a yield over four percent.


Two industries are strongly represented: The domestic and foreign telecom services industry. In my view, these industries offer values for investors but for technology stocks, there are better investments with higher growth. The big burdens of telecom services stocks are huge infrastructure investments due to higher data volumes and low pricing power due to legislation rules and competitive forces. If you want to make big money within the technology sector, you should look at IT stocks and software companies.

Here are my favorite stocks:

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CenturyLink (NYSE:CTL) has a market capitalization of $23.90 billion. The company employs 49,200 people, generates revenues of $15,351.00 million and has a net income of $573.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $6,029.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 39.27 percent (operating margin 13.05 percent and the net profit margin finally 3.73 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 38.90 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 104.84 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 3.76 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.22. 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 31.60, P/S ratio 1.57 and P/B ratio 1.15. Dividend Yield: 7.48 percent. The beta ratio is 0.72.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of CenturyLink, Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of CenturyLink, Inc. (CTL) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of CenturyLink, Inc. (NYSE: CTL) (Click to enlarge)

AT&T (NYSE:T) has a market capitalization of $193.05 billion. The company employs 256,420 people, generates revenues of $126,723.00 million and has a net income of $4,184.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $27,595.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 21.78 percent (operating margin 7.27 percent and the net profit margin finally 3.30 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 23.95 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 61.36 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 3.63 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.69. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.73 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 47.59, P/S ratio 1.54 and P/B ratio 1.86. Dividend Yield: 5.32 percent. The beta ratio is 0.58.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of AT&T Inc. (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of AT&T Inc. (T) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) (Click to enlarge)

Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ) has a market capitalization of $114.38 billion. The company employs 191,800 people, generates revenues of $110,875.00 million and has a net income of $10,198.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $29,376.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 26.49 percent (operating margin 11.62 percent and the net profit margin finally 9.20 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 23.93 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 153.33 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 6.45 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $0.93. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.98 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 43.25, P/S ratio 1.04 and P/B ratio 3.20. Dividend Yield: 4.92 percent. The beta ratio is 0.53.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Verizon Communications... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Verizon Communications... (VZ) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Verizon Communications... (NYSE: VZ) (Click to enlarge)

Thomson Reuters (NYSE:TRI) has a market capitalization of $24.46 billion. The company employs 60,500 people, generates revenues of $13,807.00 million and has a net income of $-1,396.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $855.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 6.19 percent (operating margin -5.11 percent and the net profit margin finally -10.11 percent). 


Financial Analysis: The total debt representing 23.38 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 46.29 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of -7.87 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $-1.62. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.24 in form of dividends to shareholders. 


Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is not calculable, P/S ratio 1.81 and P/B ratio 1.53. Dividend Yield: 4.24 percent. The beta ratio is 0.95.

Long-Term Stock History Chart Of Thomson Reuters Corp. ... (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividends History of Thomson Reuters Corp. ... (TRI) (Click to enlarge)

Long-Term Dividend Yield History of Thomson Reuters Corp. ... (NYSE: TRI) (Click to enlarge)

Take a closer look at the full table of the best yielding Large Cap technology stocks. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 19.04 and forward P/E ratio is 11.93. The dividend yield has a value of 6.43 percent. Price to book ratio is 2.24 and price to sales ratio 1.88. The operating margin amounts to 15.25 percent.

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

The Best Yielding Large Cap Technology Stocks (Click to enlarge)

Related stock ticker symbols:

TEF, FTE, NOK, VIP, CTL, CHT, MBT, PHI, BCE, T, VOD, TI, VZ, SI, RCI, TRI, TU, VIV, TLK

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