by Fred Fuld III
Many investors, along with money managers, and hedge funds, take into consideration many factors when looking for stocks to invest in over the long term.
These can include such things as the trailing and future price to earnings ratio, the price to earnings brother ratio, and even if the stock pays a dividend.
One feature that some investors like to see is a strong estimated earnings per share growth rate over the next five years.
The following is a list of stocks that have all of those characteristics and even more.Here is what the stocks have in common:
- Market cap of over $10 billion
- Trailing P/E ratio less than 15
- Forward P/E ratio less than 15
- PEG ratio less than 1
- Earnings per share growth over the next 5 years over 25%
- Pay a dividend
- US based companies
Here is the list of all the companies that meet the above requirements:
Company | Symbol | Market Cap | P/E |
Ally Financial Inc. | ALLY | 10.81B | 4.16 |
Ameriprise Financial, Inc. | AMP | 25.64B | 8.97 |
APA Corporation | APA | 10.69B | 4.56 |
Discover Financial Svcs | DFS | 26.57B | 5.76 |
Ford Motor Company | F | 43.71B | 3.89 |
LKQ Corporation | LKQ | 14.02B | 13.44 |
Nucor Corporation | NUE | 27.85B | 3.78 |
Ovintiv Inc. | OVV | 10.19B | 12.22 |
Steel Dynamics, Inc. | STLD | 12.14B | 3.32 |
Synchrony Financial | SYF | 13.84B | 3.87 |
Westlake Corporation | WLK | 12.11B | 4.87 |
Ten stocks were promised, but an additional one is included.
Disclosure: Author owns Ford (F).