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Low Debt Dividend Aristocrats With High Return On Equity by Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. Here is a current sheet of Dividend Aristocrats (Stocks that have increased dividends for at least 25 years or more) with low debt ratios. As selection criteria, I choose a long-term debt to equity ratio of less than 0.5. Finally, I screened only stocks with a return on equity of more than 25 percent. 8 Dividend Aristocrats remained of which 4 yielding above 2 percent.

Here is the table with some fundamentals:
Low Debt Dividend Aristocrats With High ROE...

Take a closer look at the full table of 8 low debt Dividend Aristocrats with high return on equity. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 16.2 while the average forward P/E ratio is 14.3. The dividend yield has an average value of 2.1 percent. Price to book ratio is 4.2 and price to sales ratio 1.7. The operating margin amounts to 14.3 percent.

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MMM, KO, XOM, MKC, SHW, GWW, ECL, FDO

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