Top 5 Pharmaceuticals Paying Excellent Dividends

Drug manufacturing is the most promising industry in the healthcare sector. These companies employ a dedicated team of scientists and researchers who invented many drugs that saved millions of lives. Thanks to their cutting-edge research facilities, the average human life expectancy is getting higher and higher.We decided to screen for highly profitable drug manufacturers with substantial dividends and a maximum P/E ratio of 20. All of the following companies offered a minimum 4% dividend yield. While there are hundreds of healthcare companies listed in NYSE, only the following large cap pharmaceuticals fit into this criteria: AstraZeneca PLC (AZN): AstraZeneca is a global pharmaceutical and biologics company headquartered in London, UK. It is the world's seventh-largest pharmaceutical business measured by revenues. The company has a diversified portfolio of products that provide solutions to cancer, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infection, neuroscience, respiratory and inflammation related diseases. The market capital of this company in... Read more