12 Of The Safest Dividend Aristocrats

One of my most important lessons on the stock market was – how do I become more diversified and secure?

The answer was very simple: Don’t put all your money into one basket; don’t put all your money into one asset. Keep diversified over industries, sectors and try to look for higher capitalized stocks who are acting within several countries.

Those are one of my keystones when I talk about investment security. For sure, it’s no guarantee to avoid losses but I can sleep much better and can take a bigger part of the capital market.

Today I like to show you some new stocks with focus on security. These are my main criteria:

- Dividend yields over 2%

- Beta below 0.5

- Dividend Payout Ratios under 60%

- Market Caps are over $10 billion

My screen produced a few interesting results of which three have a very long history with their dividends, going back more than 40 years (close to Dividend Kings). I like to highlight some oft them now.

Here are 12 of the safest Dividend Aristocrats…

Exxon Mobil (NYSE:XOM) has a market capitalization of $397.11 billion. The company employs 75,000 people, generates revenue of $420,836.00 million and has a net income of $33,448.00 million.

Exxon Mobil’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $57,483.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 13.66 percent (the operating margin is 9.58 percent and the net profit margin 7.95 percent).

Financials: The total debt represents 6.55 percent of Exxon Mobil’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 13.05 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 19.17 percent was realized by Exxon Mobil.

Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $7.95. Last fiscal year, Exxon Mobil paid $2.46 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 11.79, the P/S ratio is 0.94 and the P/B ratio is finally 2.34. The dividend yield amounts to 2.94 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.90. – See more here: 12 of The Safest Dividend Aristocrats…