5 Highly Profitable Large Caps With Rapid Dividend Growth

Profitability is an important consideration when choosing dividend stocks. If a company’s profitability declines, its dividend may be in immediate danger of getting discontinued. Here we screened large cap dividend stocks for those that have seen at least a 15% increase in dividend per share, comparing the trailing-twelve-month dividend to the current year’s dividend per share estimate. These stocks pay sustainable dividend yields below 7% and payout ratios below 35%. We then screened this universe for those that are also highly profitable, beating their industry peers on gross, operating, and pretax margins. Interactive Chart: Press Play to compare changes in analyst ratings over the last two years for the stocks mentioned below. Analyst ratings sourced from Zacks Investment Research.Your browser does not support iframes. We also created a price-weighted index of the stocks mentioned below, and monitored the performance of the list relative to the S&P 500 index over... Read more