Yahoo Finance Consider This Before Buying Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ:CWBC) For The 2.0% Dividend
Dividends play a key role in compounding returns over time and can form a large part of our portfolio return. Community West Bancshares (NASDAQ:CWBC) has paid a dividend to shareholders in the last few years. It currently yields 2.0%. Should it have a place in your portfolio? Let’s take a look at Community West Bancshares in more detail.
See our latest analysis for Community West Bancshares
Here’s how I find good dividend stocks
When researching a dividend stock, I always follow the following screening criteria:
Is their annual yield among the top 25% of dividend payers?
Has it paid dividend every year without dramatically reducing payout in the past?
Has dividend per share risen in the past couple of years?
Is its earnings sufficient to payout dividend at the current rate?
Will the company be able to keep paying dividend based on the future earnings growth?
How well does Community West Bancshares fit our criteria?
Community West Bancshares has a trailing twelve-month payout ratio of 21%, meaning the dividend is sufficiently covered by earnings. Furthermore, analysts have not forecasted a dividends per share for the future, which makes it hard to determine the yield shareholders should expect, and whether the current payout is sustainable, moving forward.
If you want to dive deeper into the sustainability of a certain payout ratio, you may wish to consider the cash flow of the business. Companies with strong cash flow can sustain a higher payout ratio, while companies with weaker cash flow generally cannot.
If dividend is a key criteria in your investment consideration, then you need to make sure the dividend stock you’re eyeing out is reliable in its payments. The reality is that it is too early to consider Community West Bancshares as a dividend investment. It has only been consistently paying dividends for 4 years, however, standard practice for reliable payers is to look for a 10-year minimum track record.
Relative to peers, Community West Bancshares has a yield of 2.0%, which is on the low-side for Banks stocks.
Next Steps:
After digging a little deeper into Community West Bancshares’s yield, it’s easy to see why you should be cautious investing in the company just for the dividend. But if you are not exclusively a dividend investor, the stock could still be an interesting investment opportunity. Given that this is purely a dividend analysis, I recommend taking sufficient time to understand its core business and determine whether the company and its investment properties suit your overall goals. I’ve put together three fundamental factors you should further examine:
Future Outlook: What are well-informed industry analysts predicting for CWBC’s future growth? Take a look at our free research report of analyst consensus for CWBC’s outlook.
Valuation: What is CWBC worth today? Even if the stock is a cash cow, it’s not worth an infinite price. The intrinsic value infographic in our free research report helps visualize whether CWBC is currently mispriced by the market.
Dividend Rockstars: Are there better dividend payers with stronger fundamentals out there? Check out our free list of these great stocks here.
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