Firms with Good Projects and High Dividends

This is a listing of firms as of June 1998 that had returns on equity at least 5% greater than the cost of equity and paid dividends that exceeded their FCFE.

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Company Name
ROE - COE
Dividends/FCFE
Abbott Labs. 29.61% 143.00%
Albertson's Inc. 10.17% 158.00%
ALLTEL Corp. 6.60% 158.00%
Ameritech Corp. 16.50% 129.00%
Anheuser-Busch 17.99% 192.00%
Avery Dennison 13.28% 115.00%
Bemis Co. 5.07% 430.00%
Bestfoods 44.69% 176.00%
British Petroleum PLC 11.72% 279.00%
Campbell Soup 50.02% 107.00%
Castle A.M. & Co. 11.33% 186.00%
Cedar Fair L.P. 13.35% 279.00%
Colgate-Palmolive 21.42% 142.00%
ConAgra Inc. 13.14% 213.00%
Fort James 63.15% 324.00%
Gen'l Mills 84.77% 389.00%
Georgia Gulf 201.88% 246.00%
Gillette 17.20% 111.00%
GTE Corp. 23.02% 468.00%
Heinz (H.J.) 15.51% 169.00%
Imasco Ltd. 6.10% 916.00%
IPALCO Enterprises 12.16% 113.00%
Kimberly-Clark 22.29% 107.00%
Maytag Corp. 16.97% 206.00%
McDonald's Corp. 7.10% 132.00%
Southern N.E. Telecom 22.17% 407.00%
Tasty Baking Co. 8.09% 179.00%
TB Wood's Corp 24.35% 126.00%
TCA Cable TV 11.72% 206.00%
Textron Inc. 5.28% 101.00%
Timken Co. 5.15% 104.00%
Universal Foods 6.10% 355.00%
UST Inc. 89.10% 110.00%
USX-Marathon Group 6.33% 214.00%
Walgreen Co. 5.84% 125.00%


Last Updated on 7/1/98
By Aswath Damodaran