Should Wilmar International Limited (SGX:F34) Be Part Of 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. In the past 10 years Wilmar International Limited (SGX:F34) has returned an average of 2.00% per year to investors in the form of dividend payouts. Let’s dig deeper into whether Wilmar International should have a place in your portfolio. Check out our latest analysis for Wilmar International

5 questions to ask before buying a dividend stock

If you are a dividend investor, you should always assess these five key metrics:

• Is it paying an annual yield above 75% of dividend payers?

• Has it consistently paid a stable dividend without missing a payment or drastically cutting payout?

• Has dividend per share amount increased over the past?

• Is it able to pay the current rate of dividends from its earnings?

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

SGX:F34 Historical Dividend Yield Jun 20th 18

How well does Wilmar International fit our criteria?

Wilmar International has a trailing twelve-month payout ratio of 43.79%, meaning the dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. In the near future, analysts are predicting lower payout ratio of 38.54%, leading to a dividend yield of 3.47%. However, EPS should increase to $0.19, meaning that the lower payout ratio does not necessarily implicate a lower dividend payment. If there’s one type of stock you want to be reliable, it’s dividend stocks and their stable income-generating ability. Although F34’s per share payments have increased in the past 10 years, it has not been a completely smooth ride. Investors have seen reductions in the dividend per share in the past, although, it has picked up again. Relative to peers, Wilmar International produces a yield of 3.16%, which is high for Food stocks but still below the market’s top dividend payers.

Next Steps:

With these dividend metrics in mind, I definitely rank Wilmar International as a strong income stock, and is worth further research for anyone who considers dividends an important part of their portfolio strategy. 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 examine:

1. Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for F34’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for F34’s outlook.

2. Valuation: What is F34 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 F34 is currently mispriced by the market.

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.