Big Lots, Inc. (BIG) Dividends

BIG Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

A technique commonly used by dividend investors to value dividend-issuing stocks is the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), which seeks to determine a fair share price based on the dividend provided by the company relative to a number of other company-specific factors. Regarding Big Lots Inc, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a negative return of 46.99%. To help understand and contextualize the model's evaluation of BIG, investors may wish to consider are:

• In comparison to other US listed dividend yielding stocks in the Consumer Defensive sector, the expected return of -46.99%, based on the stock's current share price and target price based on a dividend discount model, is greater than merely 19.05% of the DDM-forecasted return of its its sector peers.
• Compared to all dividend issuing stocks in our set, Big Lots Inc bears a discount rate, according to our calculations, lower than merely 19.05% of them (lower discount rates are generally perceived as positive, and a sign of lower risk).
• Beta tells us how volatile a stock's price is relative to the broader equity index; as for BIG, approximately 7.98% of US-listed dividend issuers had a higher beta, and thus may have greater price volatility.

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