Does OKP Holdings Limited (SGX:5CF) Have A Place In Your Portfolio?

Dividends can be underrated but they form a large part of investment returns, playing an important role in compounding returns in the long run. Over the past 10 years, OKP Holdings Limited (SGX:5CF) has returned an average of 4.00% per year to shareholders in terms of dividend yield. Should it have a place in your portfolio? Let’s take a look at OKP Holdings in more detail. Check out our latest analysis for OKP Holdings

How I analyze a dividend stock

When researching a dividend stock, I always follow the following screening criteria:

• Is it the top 25% annual dividend yield payer?

• Has it paid dividend every year without dramatically reducing payout in the past?

• Has dividend per share amount increased over the past?

• Does earnings amply cover its dividend payments?

• Will the company be able to keep paying dividend based on the future earnings growth?

SGX:5CF Historical Dividend Yield June 25th 18

How well does OKP Holdings fit our criteria?

The company currently pays out 20.55% of its earnings as a dividend, according to its trailing twelve-month data, meaning the dividend is sufficiently 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.

If there is one thing that you want to be reliable in your life, it’s dividend stocks and their constant income stream. Although 5CF’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.

Compared to its peers, OKP Holdings produces a yield of 6.45%, which is high for Construction stocks.

Next Steps:

Considering the dividend attributes we analyzed above, OKP Holdings is definitely worth keeping an eye on for someone looking to build a dedicated income portfolio. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, I recommend taking sufficient time to understand its core business and determine whether the company and its investment properties suit your overall goals. I’ve put together three relevant aspects you should look at:

1. Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for 5CF’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for 5CF’s outlook.

2. Historical Performance: What has 5CF’s returns been like over the past? Go into more detail in the past track record analysis and take a look at the free visual representations of our analysis for more clarity.

3. 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.