20 Best Stocks to Hold for the Long-Term

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20 Best Stocks to Hold for the Long-Term

Forget about buying and selling stocks within a matter of days or months. Morgan Stanley is out with a new note recommending 30 companies that you should hold until 2018.

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Below is a list of the 20 top dividend payers.

That’s not to say you should then sell them in 2018, it’s to say that Morgan Stanley believes these companies are poised to perform well over the next three years.

These are the 5 highest yielding resuts in detail:

JPMorgan Chase — Yield: 2.63%

JPMorgan Chase (NYSE:JPM) employs 241,359 people, generates revenue of $51,531.00 million and has a net income of $21,762.00 million. The current market capitalization stands at $248.68 billion.

JPMorgan Chase’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $40,815.00 million. The EBITDA margin is 43.33% (the operating margin is 31.62% and the net profit margin 23.10%).

Financials: The total debt represents 21.98% of JPMorgan Chase assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 244.04%. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 9.76% was realized by JPMorgan Chase.

Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $5.46. Last fiscal year, JPMorgan Chase paid $1.58 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 12.18, the P/S ratio is 2.64 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.18. The dividend yield amounts to 2.63%. – Read more here: 20 Best Stocks to Hold for the Long-Term….