Hess Corporation (HES) Dividends

HES 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. Regarding Hess Corp, the DDM model generated by StockNews estimates a return of negative 68.05% in comparison to its current price. Digging deeper, the aspects of Hess Corp's dividend discount model that we found most interesting were:

• Hess Corp has annual revenue of approximately $5 billion; this puts it in the large-sized revenue class -- where its dividend growth rate surpasses that of only 13.59% of US-listed, dividend-issuing stocks in the same revenue class.
• With a market cap of roughly $17 billion, HES is in the large-sized market cap class; here, it has a lower equity discount rate than only 10.65% of stocks.
• Beta tells us how volatile a stock's price is relative to the broader equity index; for Hess Corp, its beta is lower than 9.11% of dividend issuing stocks we observed.

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