8 Growing Companies With High Yields, Low Debt, and Reasonable Valuations

We can use the Screener.co stock screener to find attractive investment opportunities for income-oriented investors. To do this, we first limit our scope to US-markets and then employ the following conditions: Field op Criteria Current year dividend per share estimate / Price-closing or last bid > 0.02 Current year dividend per share estimate >= Dividends per share-trailing 12 month Total Debt(I) < 2 * EBITDA(A) EPS Change-TTM over TTM >= 0 Revenue Change-TTM over TTM >= 0 Current EV/EBITDA <= 10 We require at least a 2% forward yield, stable or growing dividends, stable or growing revenue and EPS, manageable debt loads (using a conservative debt threshold of less than 2x annual EBITDA) and an EV/EBITDA ratio of less than 10. Many of the 81 companies returned by this screen, as of 4/12/2011, are foreign company ADRs that may be subject to different dividend tax rates than US-based companies. For... Read more