Flexsteel Industries Inc (NASDAQ:FLXS) Will Pay US$0.22 In Dividends
Investors who want to cash in on Flexsteel Industries Inc’s (NASDAQ:FLXS) upcoming dividend of US$0.22 per share have only 2 days left to buy the shares before its ex-dividend date, 20 September 2018, in time for dividends payable on the 08 October 2018. Investors looking for higher income-generating stocks to add to their portfolio should keep reading, as I take a deeper dive into Flexsteel Industries’s latest financial data to analyse its dividend attributes.
See our latest analysis for Flexsteel Industries
5 checks you should use to assess a dividend stock
If you are a dividend investor, you should always assess these five key metrics:
Does it pay an annual yield higher than 75% of dividend payers?
Does it consistently pay out dividends without missing a payment of significantly cutting payout?
Has it increased its dividend per share amount over the past?
Does earnings amply cover its dividend payments?
Based on future earnings growth, will it be able to continue to payout dividend at the current rate?
How well does Flexsteel Industries fit our criteria?
Flexsteel Industries has a trailing twelve-month payout ratio of 39.1%, which means that the dividend is covered by earnings. Furthermore, analysts have not forecasted a dividends per share for the future, which makes it hard to determine the yield shareholders should expect, and whether the current payout is sustainable, moving forward.
When considering the sustainability of dividends, it is also worth checking the cash flow of a company. Companies with strong cash flow can sustain a higher payout ratio, while companies with weaker cash flow generally cannot.
If there’s one type of stock you want to be reliable, it’s dividend stocks and their stable income-generating ability. Although FLXS’s per share payments have increased in the past 10 years, it has not been a completely smooth ride. Shareholders would have seen a few years of reduced payments in this time.
Relative to peers, Flexsteel Industries has a yield of 2.7%, which is high for Consumer Durables stocks but still below the market’s top dividend payers.
Next Steps:
If you are building an income portfolio, then Flexsteel Industries is a complicated choice since it has some positive aspects as well as negative ones. But if you are not exclusively a dividend investor, the stock could still be an interesting investment opportunity. 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. There are three essential factors you should further research:
Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for FLXS’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for FLXS’s outlook.
Valuation: What is FLXS 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 FLXS is currently mispriced by the market.
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 past 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.
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