Genuine Parts Co. (GPC) Dividends

GPC Price Forecast Based on Dividend Discount Model

For dividend yielding stocks, the Dividend Discount Model (DDM) is a common valuation tool; it attempts to extrapolate a fair share price based primarily on the dividend the stock provides relative to a number of other quantiative aspects of its business. In the case of GPC, the dividend discount model StockNews created for the company implies a negative return of 12.08%. Digging deeper, the aspects of Genuine Parts Co's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• GPC's market cap is about 18 billion US dollars -- its dividend yield of 2.81 is greater than 69.64% of its fellow stocks in the large market cap class.
• In comparison to other US listed dividend yielding stocks in the Consumer Cyclical sector, Genuine Parts Co's expected return of -12.08% is higher than 69.01% of its fellow sector mates.
• Compared to all dividend issuing stocks in our set, GPC has a discount rate lower than 69.01% of them (a lower discount rate is associated with lower risk).
• Genuine Parts Co's dividend growth rate is greater than 32.43% of its fellow large-sized market cap stocks that issue dividends.

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