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Barron's 500 Low P/E Dividend Dogs Show Potential In May
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Published Wed, 16 May 2012 14:35:23 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
Barron's, "The Dow Jones Business and Financial Weekly," published its annual list of America's 500 top companies by sales May 7. Barron's survey was prepared by HOLT, a segment of Credit Suisse which measured, graded, then ranked companies based on three measures collected from reports from the companies' latest reported fiscal year (mostly 2011): "Median three-year return on investment, based on a proprietary cash-flow metric called CFROI" "Change in CFROI in the latest fiscal year relative to the three-year median" "Sales growth in the latest fiscal year, adjusted for divestitures (and, in the case of cigarette companies, for taxes that are collected and remitted to the government)" Given the measures, each company was graded in each of the three categories with those making the top one-fifth graded A, while those in the bottom one-fifth were graded F. HOLT thereby assigned grade point averages (GPA) for each company based on 4... Read more
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