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12 Dividend Stocks From The S&P 500 With Most Attractive Price Ratios
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Published Wed, 27 Jun 2012 08:07:17 -0400 on Seeking Alpha
Many investors own stocks from the Dow Jones and the S&P 500. Both indices include 500 leading companies in leading industries of the U.S. economy. The S&P 500 has over $5.58 trillion benchmarked, with index assets comprising approximately $1.31 trillion of this total. Investors with a limited capital amount couldn't own every stock of the index. To get real bargains, they need to buy the cheapest stocks of the index. In order to find the cheapest dividend stocks, I screened the index by companies with a P/S and P/B ratio of less than one as well as a current P/E ratio below 15. Twelve companies remained. These are the detailed results sorted by yield: 1. GameStop (GME) has a market capitalization of $2.30 billion. The company generates revenues of $9,550.50 million and has a net income of $338.50 million. The firm's EBITDA amounts to $755.80 million. Because of these figures,... Read more
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US59156R1086 42.82 20.4 2.12 1.10 2.57 XEROX
US9841211033 9.02 9.7 0.92 0.23 2.55 HEWLETT PACKARD
US4282361033 21.11 0.0 -6.55 0.53 2.50 PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL GROUP
US74251V1026 38.14 15.2 2.51 0.92 2.41 PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL
US7443201022 68.05 48.4 1.41 1.60 2.35 ASSURANT
US04621X1081 50.60 9.6 5.23 1.00 1.98 MURPHY OIL
US6267171022 64.39 14.1 4.59 1.25 1.94 VALERO ENERGY
US91913Y1001 41.21 7.4 5.68 0.80 1.94 WELLPOINT
US94973V1070 78.10 9.1 8.49 1.50 1.92 CHESAPEAKE ENERGY
US1651671075 20.85 0.0 -1.32 0.35 1.68 HESS
US42809H1077 69.68 9.4 7.35 0.40 0.57