Is Buying Black Hills Corporation (NYSE:BKH) For Its Upcoming $0.48 Dividend A Good Choice?
Investors who want to cash in on Black Hills Corporation’s (NYSE:BKH) upcoming dividend of $0.48 per share have only 3 days left to buy the shares before its ex-dividend date, 17 May 2018, in time for dividends payable on the 01 June 2018. Should you diversify into Black Hills and boost your portfolio income stream? Well, keep on reading because today, I’m going to look at the latest data and analyze the stock and its dividend property in further detail. See our latest analysis for Black Hills
How I analyze a dividend stock
Whenever I am looking at a potential dividend stock investment, I always check these five metrics:
Does it pay an annual yield higher than 75% of dividend payers?
Has it paid dividend every year without dramatically reducing payout in the past?
Has the amount of dividend per share grown over the past?
Is its earnings sufficient to payout dividend at the current rate?
Based on future earnings growth, will it be able to continue to payout dividend at the current rate?
How does Black Hills fare?
The company currently pays out 38.99% of its earnings as a dividend, according to its trailing twelve-month data, meaning the dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. In the near future, analysts are predicting a higher payout ratio of 59.51%, leading to a dividend yield of 3.52%. However, EPS is forecasted to fall to $3.51 in the upcoming year. Therefore, although payout is expected to increase, the fall in earnings may not equate to higher dividend income. If there is one thing that you want to be reliable in your life, it’s dividend stocks and their constant income stream. BKH has increased its DPS from $1.4 to $1.9 in the past 10 years. It has also been paying out dividend consistently during this time, as you’d expect for a company increasing its dividend levels. This is an impressive feat, which makes BKH a true dividend rockstar. Relative to peers, Black Hills produces a yield of 3.26%, which is on the low-side for Integrated Utilities stocks.
Next Steps:
Taking into account the dividend metrics, Black Hills ticks most of the boxes as a strong dividend investment, putting it in my list of top dividend payers. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, I urge potential investors to try and get a good understanding of the underlying business and its fundamentals before deciding on an investment. I’ve put together three pertinent factors you should look at:
Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for BKH’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for BKH’s outlook.
Valuation: What is BKH worth today? Even if the stock is a cash cow, it’s not worth an infinite price. The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether BKH is currently mispriced by the market.
Other Dividend Rockstars: Are there better dividend payers with stronger fundamentals out there? Check out our free list of these great stocks here.
To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price sensitive company announcements.
The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.
