6 Stocks Giving Investors Potential Dividend Hikes In December

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6 Stocks Giving Investors Potential Dividend Hikes In December

Dividend growth stocks need to hike dividends each year in order to keep its status as dividend grower in the investor community.

Let us take a look ahead to companies that are expected to announce dividend increases in December 2014.

There are only a few weeks to close the trading book for the full year. Maybe we can find there some great expectations.

#1 AT&T (NYSE:T) has a market capitalization of $176.33 billion. The company employs 247,700 people, generates revenue of $128.752 billion and has a net income of $18.553 billion.

AT&T’s earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) amounts to $48.873 billion. The EBITDA margin is 37.96 percent (the operating margin is 23.67 percent and the net profit margin 14.41 percent).

Financials: The total debt represents 26.92 percent of AT&T’s assets and the total debt in relation to the equity amounts to 82.20 percent. Due to the financial situation, a return on equity of 19.91 percent was realized by AT&T.

Twelve trailing months earnings per share reached a value of $3.26. Last fiscal year, AT&T paid $1.80 in the form of dividends to shareholders.

Market Valuation: Here are the price ratios of the company: The P/E ratio is 10.41, the P/S ratio is 1.38 and the P/B ratio is finally 1.97. The dividend yield amounts to 5.37 percent and the beta ratio has a value of 0.40. – Check out the rest of the results here: 6 Stocks Giving Investors Potential Dividend Hikes In December…