Daily Stock Pick: Kewaunee Scientific - Thursday, October 3

A portfolio of stocks I started and named Volio Folio, September 3, will eventually hold 52 dividend dogs. Volio is the fifth portfolio I've built (at a one dividend dog per-week pace) since 2014. Five portfolios = V for Volio!

I'm reviewing today the fourth of five healthcare stocks striving to be picked to join the Volio folio collection. This would be the fifth pick for Volio!

This healthcare collection includes ten industries all related to testing, diagnosing and treating what ails us. Healthcare industries are: biotechnology; diagnostics & research; drug manufacturers - major and - specialty & generic; healthcare plans; healthcare facilities; medical care; medical devices; medical distribution; medical supplies.

My subject today is a micro cap healthcare equipment designer and fabricator named Kewaunee Scientific Corp.  Their trading ticker symbol is KEQU.

Kewaunee Scientific Corp designs, manufactures, and installs laboratory, healthcare, and technical furniture products. The company operates through two segments: Domestic and International.

The Domestic business segment designs manufactures and installs scientific and technical furniture, including steel and wood laboratory cabinetry, fume hoods, laminate casework, flexible systems, work surfaces, workstations, workbenches, and computer enclosures.

The International business segment provides facility design, engineering, construction and project management from the planning stage through testing and commissioning of laboratories.

The company generates a majority of its revenue from the Domestic business segment.

The company sells its products primarily through dealers, commissioned agents, and a national distributor, as well as through competitive bids submitted by the company and its subsidiaries in Singapore, India, and China. Kewaunee Scientific Corporation was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Statesville, North Carolina.

I use three key data points to gauge dividend-paying equities or funds like Kewaunee Scientific Corp:

(1) Price

(2) Dividends

(3) Returns

Besides those three, several other keys will finally unlock an equity or fund in which to invest, or not.

Those three basic keys, however, best tell whether a company has made, is making, and will make money.

KEQU Price

Kewaunee's price per share closed at $15.86 yesterday. A year ago its price was $29.75. In the past year its price dropped $13.89 or nearly 47%.

Assuming Kewaunee's stock trades in the range of $12.00 to $28.00 this next year, Kewaunee's recent $15.86 price could rise by $4.14 and get to $20.00 by early October, 2020, if upward momentum takes charge.

KEQU Dividends

Kewaunee's latest declared quarterly dividend was $0.19 paid September 24th.

That $0.19 Q dividend equates to $0.76 annually and yields 4.79% based on yesterday's $15.86 closing price.

KEQU Gains?

Adding the $0,76 annual estimated dividend to my $4.14 estimate of Kewaunee's price upside shows a $4.90 potential gross gain, per share, which will be reduced by costs to trade these shares.

Say we put a little under $1,000.00 today into Kewaunee Scientific Corp at its recent $15.86 price, we'd buy 63 shares of Kewaunee Scientific Corp.

A $10 broker fee paid half at purchase and half at sale will cost us about $0.16 per share.

Subtract that $0.16 brokerage cost from the estimated $4.90 gross estimated gain leaves a net gain of $4.74 X 63 shares = $298.62 or a 29.9% net gain on a $999.18 investment.

Therefore, Kewaunee Scientific Corp,  whose trading ticker symbol is KEQU now shows a possible net gain of 29.9% including a 4.79% dividend yield. It could be more, it could be less

The above speculation is based on past year performance. The actual results remain to be seen to learn if Kewaunee Scientific Corp is worth your time and money.

Disclosure: This article was compiled by Rydlun & Co., LLC from data derived from www.ycharts. com; www.finance.yahoo.com; analyst median target price by YCharts.

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