The Five TechStocks

We will explore the five tech stocks providing good dividends based on their financial strength and managable cashflows. They include:

• Intel
• Texas Instruments
• Qualcomm
• Cognizant Tech
• Analog Devices

These companies also are financially solid based on their “Altman Z scores.”

This measure blends gauges of financial strength including working capital, retained earnings, cash flow and sales compared to assets, and market cap compared to liabilities.

This research is to verify the message given by the article: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/forget-bonds-here-are-five-safe-tech-stocks-offering-dividends-and-growth-2020-05-20

Dividend yield 2.2%

Market cap: $250 billion

Altman Z-Score: 3.8

Forward P/E: 13.0

March 2009 forward P/E: 24.0

Dividend yield 3.1%

Market cap: $102 billion

Altman Z-Score: 11.7

Forward P/E: 27.7

March 2009 forward P/E: 34.0

Dividend yield: 3.3%

Market cap: $90 billion

Altman Z-Score: 3.0

Forward P/E: 22.8

Dividend yield: 1.7%

Market cap: $28 billion

Altman Z-Score: 6

Forward P/E: 14.7

March 2009 forward P/E: 11

Dividend yield: 2.3%

Market cap: $39 billion

Altman Z-Score: 3.0

Forward P/E: 24.8

March 2009 forward P/E: 30

# A tibble: 5 x 6
  ticker src   download.status total.obs perc.benchmark.dates threshold.decision
  <chr>  <chr> <chr>               <int>                <dbl> <chr>             
1 INTC   yahoo OK                     42                    1 KEEP              
2 TXN    yahoo OK                     42                    1 KEEP              
3 QCOM   yahoo OK                     42                    1 KEEP              
4 CTSH   yahoo OK                     42                    1 KEEP              
5 ADI    yahoo OK                     42                    1 KEEP