13 Industrial Dividend Stocks With Gaining Earnings Growth Momentum
Published Mon, 16 Apr 2012 on Long-Term Investments

Industrials are very cyclic and they are an early indicator for the health of the economy. Within the recent years, the sector realized a good recovery from the financial crises but the market cyclic doesn’t seem to be ended.
In order to find some opportunities from the industrial sector, I screened stocks with an earnings growth of more than ten percent over the past five years. In order to catch up only stocks with a gaining earnings momentum, I observed only those stocks with a quarter over quarter sales and earnings per share growth of more than fifteen percent. Exactly thirteen companies fulfilled these criteria of which two have a yield over three percent.
ABB (NYSE:ABB) has a market capitalization of $44.32 billion. The company employs 133,600 people, generates revenues of $37,990.00 million and has a net income of $3,306.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $5,670.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 14.92 percent (operating margin 12.28 percent and the net profit margin finally 8.70 percent).
Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 10.08 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 25.33 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 20.61 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $1.38. Last fiscal year, the company paid $0.72 in form of dividends to shareholders. Sales increased 15.17 quarter over quarter and earnings per share 15.51 percent.
Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 14.03, P/S ratio 1.20 and P/B ratio 2.81. Dividend Yield: 3.66 percent. The beta ratio is 1.46.
Elbit Systems (Nasdaq: ESLT) has a market capitalization of $1.60 billion. The company employs 12,545 people, generates revenues of $2,817.46 million and has a net income of $90.38 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $266.28 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 9.45 percent (operating margin 4.11 percent and the net profit margin finally 3.21 percent).
Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 17.96 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 74.38 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 11.40 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $2.44. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.44 in form of dividends to shareholders.Sales increased 41.44 quarter over quarter and earnings per share 37.52 percent.
Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 15.37, P/S ratio 0.57 and P/B ratio 1.78. Dividend Yield: 3.20 percent. The beta ratio is 0.90.
Cummins (NYSE: CMI) has a market capitalization of $21.91 billion. The company employs 43,900 people, generates revenues of $18,048.00 million and has a net income of $1,946.00 million. The firm’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $2,586.00 million. Because of these figures, the EBITDA margin is 14.33 percent (operating margin 14.85 percent and the net profit margin finally 10.78 percent).
Financial Analysis:
The total debt representing 5.88 percent of the company’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 12.49 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 36.37 percent was realized. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $9.55. Last fiscal year, the company paid $1.32 in form of dividends to shareholders.Sales increased 18.89 quarter over quarter and earnings per share 55.25 percent.
Market Valuation:
Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.93, P/S ratio 1.21 and P/B ratio 3.99. Dividend Yield: 1.40 percent. The beta ratio is 1.96.
Take a closer look at the full table of industrial dividend stocks with accelerated growth. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 17.16 and forward P/E ratio is 12.08. The dividend yield has a value of 1.64 percent. Price to book ratio is 4.16 and price to sales ratio 1.40. The operating margin amounts to 12.61 percent. Sales increased 23.75 percent compared to the figures from the same quarter last year (8.21 percent 5-year average) and the earnings per share grew 55.92 percent quarter over quarter (17.03 percent 5-year average).
Here is the full table with some fundamentals (TTM):
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