Dividend Yield Roundup of Application Software Industry Giants – MSFT, ORCL, VRSN, ADBE, SAP

Dividend Yield of a company is a key metric to use when investors evaluating which stock to buy. Many investors use it in combination with other valuation metrics like Price to Earnings ratio (P/E) or Price to Sales (P/S).

Numerous investors favor to watch the dividend yield, which is measured as the yearly dividend income a share divided by the present share price. Dividend yield calculates the amount of income received in proportion to the share price.

In this article we will discuss dividend yield position of key five Application Software industry stocks.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), world’s biggest software maker, has dividend yield ratio of 3.48%. The Redmond, Washington based company has the market capitalization of 10.08 billion while 8.42 billion shares were outstanding. Beta factor, which is used to measure riskiness of the stock, was recorded as 0.97 while its price to earnings ratio was 14.30. MSFT offered net profit margin of 21.71% while its gross profit margin was 75.23%.

Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ:ORCL) has the market capitalization of 165.27 billion. The company offered yearly dividend yield of 0.69%. The Redwood City, California based company has 4.73 billion shares outstanding while its 62% shares were owned by institutional investors. The price to earnings ratio was booked as 16.47 while price to book ratio was recorded as 3.86. The company made $10.56 billion in earnings during prior 12 months on sales of $37.23 billion.

Verisign, Inc (NASDAQ:VRSN) has the market capitalization of 6.03 billion while its EPS was recorded as 1.57. The company has 155.26 million shares outstanding while institutions investors own only 104% shares. Yearly dividend was 2.75 while P/S ratio was 7.16. The corporation has operating profit margin of 48.98% while net profit margin was 30.31%. In the liquidity analysis, current ratio was 0.95 while shares of company were moving ahead of SMA 20 with 1.87%.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) has the market capitalization of 19.08 billion while 494.13 million shares were outstanding. The San Jose, California based company offered net profit margin of 18.91% while its gross profit margin was 89.01%. ROE was booked as 13.38% while ROI was 10.13%. Year to date performance of the stock was 2.49% while stock volatility for month was booked as 1.84%.

SAP AG (ADR) (NYSE:SAP) offered 1.05% dividend yield on dividend of $0.94. The Germany based company has the market capitalization of 98.25 billion. ROA ratio of the corporation was 12.81% while its ROI ratio was 17.36%. The current ratio was 1.03. Beta factor, which is used to gauge risk associated with the stock, was 1.25. Shares of the company were moving ahead of SMA 50 with 7.02% while SMA 20 with 2.65%.

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