Ranking Energy Stocks By Dividend And Earnings Yield

Searching for the best value energy stocks, I decided to rank all the energy stocks, which are traded in U.S. markets, by the sum of their dividend and earnings yield. Definition of Earnings Yield by Investopedia: The earnings per share for the most recent 12-month period divided by the current market price per share. The earnings yield (which is the inverse of the P/E ratio) shows the percentage of each dollar invested in the stock that was earned by the company. The earnings yield is used by many investment managers to determine optimal asset allocations. I used the Portfolio123's powerful ranking system to grade all energy stocks based on this theme. Only stocks with a market cap greater than $100 million and price greater than 1.00 were taken into account. All the data for this article were taken from Portfolio123. The ranking system that I built searched for... Read more