26 Top Dividend Growth And Share Buyback Stocks Of The Past Week

Today I’ve compiled the latest dividend growth stocks and share buyback announcements. Twelve companies have released a share buyback program but only Lockheed Martin was the company with significant influence.

The military provider to the U.S. Government plans to buy additional $2 billion in own shares in the future. That’s good news for shareholders and those will also receive more money by dividends. Lockheed also boosted its dividend payments by 12.78 percent. The new yield will hit the 3.3 percent level.

On the dividend growth side, only 14 companies or funds/trusts announced to pay higher dividends. The biggest company was Lockheed Martin followed by the electric utility stock OGE Energy.

In my view there were no interesting companies on the attached list. For sure you need a second check but for my own asset allocation, which excluded highly cyclical stocks and financials/banks/trusts etc..The research effort was very small for me.

What do you think from the latest dividend grower and share repurchaser? Do you like them or do you own one of them? Please let me known by leaving a little comment on this blog. Thank you for reading my blog.

My favorite Dividend Grower and Share Repurchaser 
of the recent week are…

#1 Lockheed Martin (NYSE:LMT) has a market capitalization of $56.32 billion. The company employs 115,000 people, generates revenue of $45.358 billion and has a net income of $2.950 billion. Lockheed Martin’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $6.212 billion. The EBITDA margin is 13.70 percent (the operating margin is 9.93 percent and the net profit margin 6.50 percent).

Financial Analysis: The total debt represents 17.00 percent of Lockheed Martin’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 125.09 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 119.02 percent was realized by Lockheed Martin. Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $9.70. Last fiscal year, Lockheed Martin paid $4.78 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 18.73, the P/S ratio is 1.24 and the P/B ratio is finally 11.51. The dividend yield amounts to 3.00 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.72. – See #2 – #26 at 26 Top Dividend Growth And Share Buyback Stocks Of The Past Week….