Growing dividend payers
A modest yield attached to a growing business beats a large yield attached to a shrinking one, every time, over any horizon that matters.
Dividend yield across the top 7 matches
Look at the spread, not the ranking. If the bars are all the same length, the screen is arbitrary: one point of dividend yield separates a company that made the list from one that did not, and the cut is doing more work than the data supports. A long tail means the top few are genuinely exceptional and the rest merely qualified.
What this screen is really buying
The matches are spread across sectors, which means the screen is selecting on the characteristic it claims to and not accidentally on an industry.
| Company | Price | P/E | Yield | Moat | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
GFI.JO Gold Fields | R332.00 | 14.0 | 2.5% | 55 | 62 |
FSR.JO FirstRand | R78.40 | 11.0 | 4.5% | 72 | 68 |
MRK Merck & Co. | $82.00 | 17.0 | 3.5% | 75 | 66 |
AZN.L AstraZeneca | £105.20 | 28.0 | 2.2% | 82 | 72 |
MTN.JO MTN Group | R126.00 | 15.0 | 2.6% | 65 | 63 |
SHP.JO Shoprite Holdings | R296.00 | 22.0 | 2.3% | 74 | 67 |
QCOM Qualcomm Inc. | $165.00 | 16.0 | 2.0% | 72 | 66 |
Educational information, not financial advice, and not a recommendation to buy anything. A screen is a place to start reading, never a place to stop.