FMS 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 Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co KGaA, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a positive return of 18.8%. Digging deeper, the aspects of Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co KGaA's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Beta is a measure of how volatile a stock is relative to the S&P 500; when evaluated against its peers in the large-sized revenue class, Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co KGaA has a beta lower than 93.29% of such peers.
• The Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co KGaA's dividend growth rate is greater than only 20.65% of its fellow large-sized market cap stocks that issue dividends.

FMS Dividends vs. Peers