The annual dividend list is out!This year's list produces only 18 names despite tweaking the factors multiple times. It goes to shows that the market continues to be expensive and it is hard to get as many gems as before. Again, we see the usual suspects: Elec & Eltek, CSE, Transpac, Boustead etc.
...2014 High Dividend Stocks in Singapore
As with previous years' lists, I used just a couple factors: ROE, Dividend Yield, Free Cashflow Yield and Operating Margin. The top 3 names gave amazing dividends. It should be one-off and unlikely to be sustainable. If CSE Global gave another 50% dividend this year, the stock price would go to zero.
Some of these names have appeared many times since the list started in 2009. This is actually not a good thing. Yes, a long term investor would have earned the dividends over the years, some are ...