Top Dividend Stocks Under $10 per Share

by Fred Fuld III

The advantage of owning dividend stocks is that your invested capital is being returned while you are waiting for the share price to appreciate. Dividends also can add some stability to the stock price.

Even though it really doesn’t make any difference what the price of s stock is, owning a low priced stock gives investors a psychological benefit. (“A $5 stock only has to go up by $1 and I’ve made 20%.”) Plus, lower priced stocks are accessible to more investors. After all, how many investors can afford 100 shares of Amazon?

What happens if you add the two together, a low price and dividends? There are actually around 360 stocks that fit those categories, assuming yields of at least 2%. However, if you narrow it down to the stocks with the top fundamentals, there are actually eight stocks that fit into that category.

The fundamentals that are considered include:

• P/E ratio below 15
• Forward P/E below 15
• Price to Earnings Growth Ratio of less than one
• Price Sales Ratio less than one
• Yield over 2%

For example, the office supplies company, ACCO Brands (ACCO), sells for less than $9 per share, and trades at 7.5 times trailing earnings and 6.4 times forward earnings. It sports a favorable  0.75 price to earnings growth ratio and an excellent 0.44 price/sales ratio. The latest quarterly earnings growth was 21.2% year-over-year. The yield is 2.87% and dividends are paid quarterly.

Another example is the chemical company, Valhi (VHI), based in Dallas, Texas, which yields 3.43% and trades for less than $3 per share. The stock has an extremely low P/E ratio of 2.3, and Forward P/E of 2.8.

The following is a list of the various stocks that match the previously described fundamentals.

Please note that many of these stocks have very low market caps and should be considered very speculative.

Disclosure: Author owns Ford.