CenturyLink Offer Investors A 7% Dividend Yield And Revenue Stability
Published Nov 13, 2012 on Seeking Alpha

Even though CenturyLink (CTL) has always had the lowest dividend yield of the rural telecom trifecta (CenturyLink, Frontier (FTR) and Windstream (WIN), we believe it is the best-in-breed in the rural telecom space. Granted, this sector is dominated by CTL, FTR and WIN. We believe that investors in the rural sector shouldn't mind sacrificing 1-3% current yield to buy CenturyLink instead of Windstream or Frontier because we believe that investors are more likely to see the return of their money, as well as incremental growth on their seed capital by investing in CenturyLink versus Windstream or Frontier. We believe it is of the utmost importance to analyze how a company earns the money to pay us our quarterly dividends rather than merely grabbing the yield off MSN Money. Based on our analysis, we see that CenturyLink's operating performance continues to outpace Frontier and Windstream. Source: Bloomberg LPCenturyLink recently reported... Read more