Crunching the Data: Seven Big Pharmas With Consistent Dividends
Published Apr 22, 2011 on Seeking Alpha

Our "persistent, consistent dividends" filter identified 7 large pharmaceutical companies among the approximate 75 companies that have dividends of 3.5% or more, have paid dividends for at least 7 years without decreasing them, have sufficient current cash flow from operations to cover the dividend, and have at least $20,000 per minute in trading volume. Those 7 are: Bristol Myers (BMY) Abbott Labs (ABT) Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) Novartis (NVS) AstraZeneca (AZN) Lilly (LLY) Merk (MRK). Let's look more deeply at those companies in terms of: valuation operating fundamentals total return and dividend growth best and worst performance periods and volatility price behavior analyst ratings.... Read more