Key points
- Dividends are growing, these three shares increase their payments by 5% to 25%.
- Promotions that increase their dividends recently include large leaders in the field of software, a luxury house and communications infrastructure.
- The second largest in the world, the developer of the software developer returned the dividend share in accordance with S&P 500.
The headlines of increase in dividends can penetrate the dazzling pace during the brightest weeks of the revenue season. Nevertheless, StraggGlers in the late report also deserve recognition of their readiness to return more capital to shareholders.
Below are three leaders in their relevant industries, which increase dividends at the tail of the 4th quarter of 2024. All data on return, market capitalization and dividend profitability use data as of March 14.
Oracle: Divident to jump 25%, S&P 500 discounts again
Oracle (NYSE: OrCl) is known for its leadership position in the software for managing databases and planning of the enterprise resources (ERP). Recently, the technical company has gained recognition for a growing cloud infrastructure business. It is also a key player in the Stargate project for $ 500 billion. Oracle, with a market capitalization of $ 418 billion, is the second largest software company in the world.
Following the topic of a large -scale technical company, Oracle has also just announced a huge increase in dividends. The company will increase its quarterly dividends to $ 0.50 per share, which is 25% by 25% compared to the previous $ 0.40. On April 23, it will be paid by the shareholders of the entry on April 10. This increase in dividends should be redended by the company’s scheme only once every two years. Currently, the company has the specified dividend yield of just over 1.3% over the next 12 months. The company’s profitability is now slightly higher than the yield of 1.2% of the S&P 500 index.
This is the first time that Oracle’s profitability was above the index crop since June 2024. Although this does not seem intentional, Oracle did a good job, maintaining his dividends relatively in accordance with S&P 500 over the past 10 years. The average stable twelve-month yield of S&P 500 for the period is 1.7%, and Oracle-1.5%. If it were not for the effect of special dividends released by various firms in S&P 500, their yield would be even closer.
Toll Brothers: Providing Star General Profit, despite the relatively low dividend yield
Toll Brothers (NYSE: Tol) is the leading builder of luxury houses for one family in the United States. In the last quarter, the average sale price of one of the company’s houses was $ 925,000. The company stands out among households for having one of the highest gross profits in the industry for 28% over the past 12 months.
Despite the fact that from the last quarter of 2022 it publishes its lowest adjusted profit per share (EPS), the company announced an increase in quarterly dividends by 9%. A new payment of 0.25 US dollars is paid on April 25 to record shareholders at the end of the business on April 11. This is the fifth year in a row when the company increased its dividends. Now the shares have the indicated dividend yield of slightly less than 1%.
This profitability is noticeably lower than the yield of other households, such as Lennar (NYSE: Len) and Dr. Horton (NYSE: DHI). However, even when taking into account lower dividends, the total profitability of the Toll Brothers brothers over the past five years causes these two from the water. Meanwhile, Dr. Horton and Lennar provided total profit of 240% and 176%, respectively.
American tower: strengthens already solid income with 5% growth in payments
Many investors can know little about the American tower (NYSE: AMT) compared to Oracle or Toll Brothers, but it has a strong reputation. This is one of the leading players in the world in the field of communication real estate, from almost 149,000 communication facilities. It is also the second largest investment real estate fund in the world, with a market capitalization of almost 99 billion dollars. The company announced a moderate increase in its quarterly dividend by 5%. The new distribution of $ 1.70 is paid on April 28 to record shareholders at the end of the business on April 11.
The company adjusted its dividends up and down about the recent past, which makes it difficult to find out how much it will be paid throughout the year. Nevertheless, assuming a permanent payment of $ 1.70 over the next four quarters, shares will have the indicated dividend yield of 3.2%. This largely corresponds to its average profitability over the past three years. Since 2014, the company managed to increase its annual dividends per share by more than 450%.
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Companies mentioned in this article:
Company
The current price
Changing the price
Dividend yield
P/e ratio.
Consensus -rating
Consensus target price
Oracle (OrCl)
$ 153,25
+2.7%
1.31%
37.46
Moderate purchase
$ 179.71
American tower (AMT)
$ 214.01
+1.5%
3.18%
90.30
Buy
$ 228.79
TOLL brothers (tol)
$ 105.28
+0.4%
0.95%
7.25
Moderate purchase
$ 147.57
| Company | The current price | Changing the price | Dividend yield | P/e ratio. | Consensus -rating | Consensus target price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oracle (OrCl) | $ 153,25 | +2.7% | 1.31% | 37.46 | Moderate purchase | $ 179.71 |
| American tower (AMT) | $ 214.01 | +1.5% | 3.18% | 90.30 | Buy | $ 228.79 |
| TOLL brothers (tol) | $ 105.28 | +0.4% | 0.95% | 7.25 | Moderate purchase | $ 147.57 |
About Leo Miller
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Leo Miller has been a writer for DividendStocks.com since 2024.
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Bachelor in the field of business administration, finance, Washington University
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Investment researcher in a registered investment consultant, analytics of Sungarden Investment Publishing