Durable Dividends a Preference for Getting Paid

Introduction: The Dividend Disparity
Crash Cushions
Fundamentals
Conclusions & Exhibit

Introduction: The Dividend Disparity

These are heady days for the beneficiaries of central bank infusions, government stimulus, and the high hopes of a growing legion of day-traders. For certain firms, no valuation is too high, no future forecast of cash-flows is too distant, and capital appreciation is the name of the game. Numerous readers with market-beating track records have reported various stories about the sudden and unexpected investing prowess of their recently Robin-Hood enabled children. Kailash believes that the old-fashioned business of making money buying profitable firms at reasonable prices will eventually reassert its primacy over the frenetic trading gains making headlines today.

By using simple criteria, this paper seeks to show that the exuberance in certain stocks and sectors today is creating remarkable opportunities that eclipse those seen at the peak of the internet bubble. The intersection of a decade of near-zero rates with a global health pandemic has both revealed and accelerated well documented fiscal malfeasance among many American corporations. As seen here, data from the St. Louis Fed shows that non-financial corporate debt relative to GDP has soared to new highs. An investigation by Forbes published in May noted that over the decade, 455 non-financial companies in the S&P500 added some $2.5 trillion in debt to their balance sheets. The article notes that “In the last two months alone no fewer than 392 companies have issued $617 billion in bonds and notes, piling on still more debt that they may not be able to pay back.”¹

For those interested in finding firms with terrific businesses backing material cash yields with robust balance sheets, Kailash would like to highlight an anomaly available in US equity markets today. Using the stringent criteria described in our recent work on Dividends, Kailash finds that despite today’s yield famine, the payouts offered by some of the most profitable and prudent firms are at record spreads to bond yields.

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