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10 Best Yielding Drug Manufacturing Stocks

August 02, 2012 – Comments (0) | RELATED TICKERS: LLY , PFE , BMY

Major Drug Manufacturing Stocks With Highest Yields Researched By Dividend Yield - Stock, Capital, Investment. The major drug manufacturing industry is very interesting for dividend investors due to high yielding stocks. The great burdens within the industry are expected patent losses as well slowing growth. But prices for the most big drug companies are very attractive in relation to the offered risks. However, I screened the healthcare sector by the best yielding major drug companies. Ten stocks remained of which five yielding over four percent and seven are currently recommended to buy. One high yield is below the results.

Here is the full table with some fundamentals:

10 Best Yielding Drug Manufacturing Stocks...

Take a closer look at the full table. The average price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 16.71 and forward P/E ratio is 11.73. The dividend yield has a value of 4.17 percent. Price to book ratio is 3.60 and price to sales ratio 2.55. The operating margin amounts to 22.24 percent and the beta ratio is 0.60.

Related stock ticker symbols:

AZN, GSK, LLY, NVS, SNY, BMY, MRK, PFE, JNJ, ABT

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