High Dividend Yield Paying Stocks of Consumer Goods Sector – PBI, RAI, MO, PM, CAG

Dividend yield is the yield a company pays out to its shareholders in the form of dividends. This ratio is gauged by taking the amount of dividends paid a share over the course of a year and dividing by the security’s price.

Basically, dividend yield is the financial ratio that shows how a corporation makes the dividend payments at the finish of the year and it is really relative to the price of the corporation’s stock.

However the dividend yield is simply the return on investment (ROI) earned for investment made on a security if we do not consider capital gains. Dividend yield is a way of measuring how much return investors are getting for the money put in.

In this article we will discuss high dividend yield paying stocks of consumer goods sector with market capitalization over 2 million. Earlier we discussed top five risky stocks of S&P 500 index.

Pitney Bowes Inc (NYSE:PBI) is the high dividend yield paying stock of consumer goods sector and offered 13.72% dividend yield every year. The company has the market capitalization of 2.19 billion while 200.75 million shares were outstanding. Beta factor, which measures the riskiness of the security, was booked as 1.06 while its P/E ratio was 6.02. Net profit margin of the company was 7.57% while gross profit margin was 44.22%.

Reynolds American, Inc (NYSE:RAI) has the market capitalization of 24.05 billion. The company’s annual dividend yield was booked as 5.48%. The company has 558.95 million shares outstanding and 47% stock of the corporation was owned by institutional investors. RAI has 16.29 value in P/E ratio while price to book ratio was booked as 4.20. The company made 1.52 billion in earnings during previous 12 months.

Altria Group, Inc (NYSE:MO) has the market capitalization of 67.78 billion while its EPS was booked as 1.92. The company has 2.03 billion shares outstanding while 60% shares of the company were owned by institutions investors. Dividend yield per year was 5.26% while PEG ratio was 2.60, which is relatively weak.

Philip Morris International Inc (NYSE:PM) has dividend yield ratio of 3.80% per annum. The company has the market capitalization of 149.46 billion while 1.67 billion shares were outstanding. The company offered Net profit margin of 11.64% while its gross profit margin was 27.15%. ROE was recorded as 2632.97%.

ConAgra Foods, Inc (NYSE:CAG) has 3.36% dividend yield. The company has the market capitalization of 12.12 billion. ROA ratio of the company was 5.05% while its ROI ratio was 6.43%. The current ratio was 1.34 while beta factor, which is used to measure risk associated with the security, was 0.71.

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