Thursday, May 31, 2012

3 Discounted Large Cap Financial Stocks With Sustainable Dividends


Do you consider yourself a dividend investor, looking for strong yields and sustainable payouts? If so, we ran a screen you might find interesting.The forward P/E is a price multiple valuation metric, which is similar to the current P/E ratio, except that it uses the forecasted earnings instead. While this number might not be as accurate because it uses "forecasted" numbers, it does offer the benefit of illustrating analysts' expectations of a firm. If the market believes that earnings will grow moving forward, then the forward P/E should be lower than the current P/E. Financial Leverage, also known as the Equity Multiplier, illustrates how a firm is financing its assets. The lower the number the more a firm is financing its assets internally through stockholder equity. The higher this metric is the more the firm is relying on debt to finance its assets.The PEG ratio (price/earnings to growth
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