Founded in 1984, Nu Skin Enterprises (NUS) is a distributor in “clean” personal care products. Nu Skin has historically grown earnings at a compounded rate of 6.1% since 1998, resulting in a 2.71 billion dollar market cap. The company’s earnings per share have risen from $1.49 per share in 1998, to current forecast earnings per …
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Five Tech Stocks with the Added Benefit of Dividends
Here are five technology-oriented companies that are currently trading at a price earnings ratio that implies that the stocks are attractively valued. Each of these five companies currently offers a dividend yield that is above-average as represented by the S&P 500. The following table summarizes five technology-oriented companies that appear to be attractively valued, and …
Caterpillar’s Earnings Look Like And Act Like A Caterpillar; Moving Slowly But Steady
Caterpillar Inc (CAT) is the world’s leading company in the industry of construction and mining equipment. It has 18 years of increasing dividends, and for shareholders, it can deliver a nice return over the long run, especially if purchased at the right price. This article looks at Caterpillar Inc, a Dividend Contender, through the lens …
Gilead Sciences Inc: Strong Growth At An Unreasonably Low Price
Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD) is an innovative healthcare company with a strong record of historical earnings growth and expectations for above-average growth into the future. Nevertheless, Mr. Market seems unwilling to recognize the past and future earnings power of this niche pharmaceutical growth stock. Consequently, the company trades at a single digit PE ratio that …
McDonalds Back In Value, Above-Average Growth and Above-Average Yield
McDonald’s (MCD) is a great favorite of the dividend growth investor. However, Mr. Market knows this and has historically applied a premium valuation to this blue-chip dividend stalwart. Due to its consistently above-average earnings growth, McDonald’s is a company that you could even pay a little too much for and still make money over the …
Procter & Gamble Co: Clean Up Your Retirement Portfolio For Growth And Income
Procter & Gamble (PG) has long been a blue-chip stalwart that the market has traditionally applied a premium valuation to. However, even though they maintained strong profitability right through the recessionary years, the market took the bloom off of the rose. In our opinion, this created the opportunity for conservative investors, seeking growth and income …
Speed Up Your Portfolio Performance With Comcast
Since calendar year-end 2004 Comcast Corp. (CMCSA) has strung together an impressive record of consistent EPS growth averaging over 25% per annum. However, shareholders were not adequately rewarded due to excessive overvaluation during the irrational exuberant years 1998-2000. That all changed with the great recession of 2008 which brought share price appropriately down to fair …
Baidu Inc: High Priced or Valued to Buy?
Baidu Inc (BIDU) is most commonly referred to as the Chinese version of Google. Not unlike Google, Baidu Inc has generated an extraordinary record of earnings growth over its short history as a publicly traded company. Furthermore, even though Baidu Inc is trading at one of its lowest price earnings ratio as a public company …
TECO Energy Inc: Stabilized and Growing Once Again
TECO Energy is a holding company for Tampa Electric. The company also mines coal, and has diversified its business with generation investments in Guatemala. Since suffering an earnings reset in calendar year 2004, TECO Energy has produced an average earnings growth rate of 6% per annum. After TECO Energy’s stock price initially followed its earnings …
7 Large-cap Industrials with High Growth Rates, Low Valuations and Above-average Dividend Yields
This article screened the industrial sector searching for companies that offer above-average forecast earnings growth of 15% to 20% or better that could be purchased at an attractive valuation. Although each of these companies pays a dividend, due to the cyclical nature of this industry we encourage the reader to carefully review the dividend history …