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On the 15 March 2018, Karin Technology Holdings Limited (SGX:K29) will be paying shareholders an upcoming dividend amount of HK$0.07 per share. However, investors must have bought the company’s stock before 01 March 2018 in order to qualify for the payment. That means you have only 2 days left! Is this future income a persuasive enough catalyst for investors to think about Karin Technology Holdings as an investment today? Below, I’m going to look at the latest data and analyze the stock and its dividend property in further detail. View our latest analysis for Karin Technology Holdings
How I analyze a dividend stock
When researching a dividend stock, I always follow the following screening criteria:
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Is their annual yield among the top 25% of dividend payers?
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Has it paid dividend every year without dramatically reducing payout in the past?
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Has the amount of dividend per share grown over the past?
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Is it able to pay the current rate of dividends from its earnings?
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Will it have the ability to keep paying its dividends going forward?
How well does Karin Technology Holdings fit our criteria?
Karin Technology Holdings has a negative payout ratio, which means that it is loss-making, and paying its dividend from its retained earnings. Reliablity is an important factor for dividend stocks, particularly for income investors who want a strong track record of payment and a positive outlook for future payout. Although K29’s per share payments have increased in the past 10 years, it has not been a completely smooth ride. Investors have seen reductions in the dividend per share in the past, although, it has picked up again. Relative to peers, Karin Technology Holdings has a yield of 8.56%, which is high for Electronic stocks.
Next Steps:
If you are building an income portfolio, then Karin Technology Holdings is a complicated choice since it has some positive aspects as well as negative ones. But if you are not exclusively a dividend investor, the stock could still be an interesting investment opportunity. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, I recommend taking sufficient time to understand its core business and determine whether the company and its investment properties suit your overall goals. Below, I’ve compiled three relevant factors you should look at:
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1. Historical Performance: What has K29’s returns been like over the past? Go into more detail in the past track record analysis and take a look at the free visual representations of our analysis for more clarity.
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2. Management Team: An experienced management team on the helm increases our confidence in the business – take a look at who sits on Karin Technology Holdings’s board and the CEO’s back ground.
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3. Dividend Rockstars: Are there better dividend payers with stronger fundamentals out there? Check out our free list of these great stocks here.
To help readers see pass the short term volatility of the financial market, we aim to bring you a long-term focused research analysis purely driven by fundamental data. Note that our analysis does not factor in the latest price sensitive company announcements.
The author is an independent contributor and at the time of publication had no position in the stocks mentioned.